The Homeless and Occupy El Paso: Creating Community among the 99%

Social Movement Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 356-366

  Smith, Curtis ^a   Castañeda, Ernesto ^a   Heyman, Josiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

contradictions; group identity; homelessness; Occupy; social boundaries; social movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868588090     PISSN: 14742837     EISSN: 14742829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2012.704179     Document Type: Article

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