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‘There is no alternative?’: challenging dominant understandings of youth politics in late modernity through a case study of the 2010 UK student occupation movement

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Pages 546-564 | Received 02 Mar 2012, Accepted 21 Sep 2012, Published online: 01 Nov 2012

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