Spaces and scales of African student activism: Senegalese and Zimbabwean university students at the intersection of campus, nation and globe

Antipode

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-54

  Zeilig, Leo ^a   Ansell, Nicola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activism; Africa; Scale; Spatiality; Students

Indexed keywords

POLITICAL POWER; POPULAR PROTEST; SOCIAL CONFLICT; STUDENT;

AFRICA; SENEGAL; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 39449131067     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00570.x     Document Type: Article

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