Peasant-farmer movements, third world peoples, and the Seattle protests against the world trade organization, 1999

Dialectical Anthropology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 109-128

  Edelman, Marc ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Global south; Globalization; Peasants and farmers; Social movements; World Trade Organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 71349084353     PISSN: 03044092     EISSN: 15730786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10624-009-9109-6     Document Type: Article

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