Athens in the Mediterranean 'movement of the piazzas' Spontaneity in material and virtual public spaces

City

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 299-312

  Leontidou, Lila ^a,b  

^a HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agora; Arab spring; crisis; democracy; Europe; Gramsci; Greece; hegemony; social movements; spontaneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863621575     PISSN: 13604813     EISSN: 14703629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.687870     Document Type: Article

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