Surreptitious Symbiosis: Engagement Between Activists and NGOs

Voluntas

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2620-2644

  Glasius, Marlies ^a   Ishkanian, Armine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activism; Global civil society; NGOs; Occupy; Street protests

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; POPULAR PROTEST; SOCIAL CHANGE;

ARMENIA [WEST ASIA]; ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; CAIRO [EGYPT]; EGYPT; ENGLAND; GREECE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; YEREVAN;

EID: 84946498408     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-014-9531-5     Document Type: Article

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