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Social Attractors: A Proposal to Enhance “Resilience Thinking” about the Social

Ken Hatt Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Food Systems, Culture and Society, International Graduate Institute, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, SpainCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 30-43 | Received 28 Jun 2011, Accepted 26 Mar 2012, Published online: 24 Sep 2012

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