Social Change, Resistance and Social Practices

✍ Scribed by Richard Dello Buono; David Fasenfest

Publisher: BRILL
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 280
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser.
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This collection dives head-on into the central contradictions of 21st Century North America and beyond with cutting-edge approaches to conflict-driven social change. Diverse forms of social movement resistance from environmentalists, migrant communities and others are analyzed by distinguished critical sociologists.

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