The urbanisation of justice movements? Possibilities and constraints for the city as a space of contentious struggle

Space and Polity

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-135

  Nicholls, Walter J ^a   Beaumont, Justin R ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS; URBAN POLITICS;

BENELUX; CALIFORNIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; HAUTE-GARONNE; LOS ANGELES; MIDI-PYRENEES; NETHERLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; ROTTERDAM; SOUTH HOLLAND; TOULOUSE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 5444243616     PISSN: 13562576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1356257042000273922     Document Type: Article

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