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Special Section: New Insights on Consumer Activism: Advancing a Prefigurative Framing of Alternative Consumption

Neo-materialist movement organisations and the matter of scale: scaling through institutions as prefigurative politics?

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Pages 857-878 | Received 03 Jul 2021, Accepted 21 Dec 2021, Published online: 24 Mar 2022

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