What's left in the community? Oppositional politics in contemporary practice

Community Development Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-52

  Defilippis, James ^a   Fisher, Robert ^b   Shragge, Eric ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; GLOBALIZATION; NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 57849130767     PISSN: 00103802     EISSN: 14682656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bsm010     Document Type: Article

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