Strange bedfellows: Contentious coalitions and the politics of GM wheat

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 289-317

  Magnan, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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