‘Polymorphic spatial politics’: Tales from a grassroots regional movement

Spaces of Contention: Spatialities and Social Movements

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 103-119

  Jones, Martin ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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