Rethinking Cities in Contentious Times: The Mobilisation of Urban Dissent in the 'Arab Spring'

Urban Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1675-1688

  Allegra, Marco ^a   Bono, Irene ^b   Rokem, Jonathan ^c   Casaglia, Anna ^c   Marzorati, Roberta ^d   Yacobi, Haim ^d  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIA ROLE; RECONSTRUCTION; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOCIOBIOLOGY; URBAN HISTORY; URBAN RENEWAL;

EID: 84878836812     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098013482841     Document Type: Article

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