Alliance building across social movements: Bridging difference in a peace and justice coalition

Social Problems

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 647-676

  Beamish, Thomas D ^a   Luebbers, Amy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalitions; Environmental justice; Microdynamics; Peace movement; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350749390     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2009.56.4.647     Document Type: Article

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