Peasants against MNCs and the state: The role of the Bergama struggle in the institutional construction of the gold-mining field in Turkey

Organization

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 547-573

  Özen, Şükrü ^a   Özen, Hayriye ^b  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Environment; Institutional change; Local resistance; MNC; Neo institutionalism; Polity; Social movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350259617     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508409104508     Document Type: Article

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