Located locally, disseminated nationally: The Bergama movement

Environmental Politics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 408-423

  Ozen, Hayriye ^a  

^a ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bergama movement; Discourse; Empty signifier; Logic of equivalence; Movement expansion

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; ENVIRONMENTALISM; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 70449359761     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644010902823766     Document Type: Article

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