Food desertification: Situating choice and class relations within an Urban political economy of declining food access

Studies in Social Justice

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 207-228

  Bedore, Melanie ^a  

^a QUEST UNIVERSITY CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 84904659725     PISSN: 19114788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26522/ssj.v8i2.1034     Document Type: Article

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