Translating democracy: How activists in the European Social Forum practice multilingual deliberation

European Political Science Review

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 361-384

  Doerr, Nicole ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

conflict; deliberation; diversity; Europe; multilingualism; translation; transnational social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903999740     PISSN: 17557739     EISSN: 17557747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773911000312     Document Type: Article

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