Doing is believing: Prefiguration as strategic practice in the alterglobalization movement

Social Movement Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-20

  Maeckelbergh, Marianne ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alterglobalization movement; Diversity; Horizontality; Prefiguration; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952508356     PISSN: 14742837     EISSN: 14742829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2011.545223     Document Type: Article

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