'There is no alternative?': Challenging dominant understandings of youth politics in late modernity through a case study of the 2010 UK student occupation movement

Journal of Youth Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 546-564

  Rheingans, Rowan ^a   Hollands, Robert ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

collectivism; occupation; politics; space; student movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878121091     PISSN: 13676261     EISSN: 14699680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2012.733811     Document Type: Article

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