The crisis seen from below, within, and against: From solidarity economy to food distribution cooperatives in Greece

Dialectical Anthropology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 189-207

  Rakopoulos, Theodoros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cooperatives; Crisis; Distribution; Exception; Greece; Solidarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904209399     PISSN: 03044092     EISSN: 15730786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10624-014-9342-5     Document Type: Article

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