The crisis and its discourses: Quasi-Orientalist attacks on Mediterranean urban spontaneity, informality and joie de vivre

City

Volumn 18, Issue 4-5, 2014, Pages 551-562

  Leontidou, Lila ^a  

^a HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Athens; cosmopolitanism; digital society; grassroots creativity; social movements; Southern Europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907587390     PISSN: 13604813     EISSN: 14703629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939477     Document Type: Article

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