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Gender, Place & Culture
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Women anti-mining activists’ narratives of everyday resistance in the Andes: staying put and carrying on in Peru and Ecuador

Pages 1441-1459 | Received 07 Sep 2016, Accepted 29 May 2017, Published online: 13 Oct 2017

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