Rethinking Prefiguration: Alternatives, Micropolitics and Goals in Social Movements

Social Movement Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-21

  Yates, Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barcelona; everyday politics; free spaces; micropolitics; practices; Prefiguration; social centres

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911370419     PISSN: 14742837     EISSN: 14742829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2013.870883     Document Type: Article

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