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The local in the global: rethinking social movements in the new millennium

Kim Voss Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Michelle Williams Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaView further author information
Pages 352-377 | Received 26 Oct 2010, Accepted 13 Jul 2011, Published online: 14 Sep 2011

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