Translation Alignment: Actor-Network Theory, Resistance, and the Power Dynamics of Alliance in New Caledonia

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Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 806-827

  Horowitz, Leah S ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grassroots environmentalist organizations; Indigenous protest groups; Industrial development; Melanesia; Multinational mining; Political ecology

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTALISM; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; HUMAN RIGHTS; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; MINING; NETWORK ANALYSIS;

NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA];

EID: 84860668125     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00926.x     Document Type: Article

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