From Militant Particularism to Anti-neoliberalism? The Anti-Enron Movement in India

Antipode

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1059-1080

  Ahmed, Waquar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Counter hegemony; Neoliberalism; Power; Scale; Social movement; Space

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; HEGEMONY; NEOLIBERALISM; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL POWER; POWER RELATIONS; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; STATE ROLE;

INDIA;

EID: 84864944182     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00964.x     Document Type: Article

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