Relational positionality: Conceptualizing research, power, and the everyday politics of neoliberalization in Mexico city

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Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 110-132

  Crossa, Veronica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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