From Global Dispossession to Local Repossession: Towards a Worldly Cultural Geography of Occupy Activism

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 385-408

  Sparke, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural geography; Occupy activism; Occupy Wall Street; Public space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881068933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118384466.ch33     Document Type: Chapter

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