(Relative) autonomism, policy currents and the politics of mobilisation for food sovereignty in the United States: the case of Occupy the FarmFootnote^*

* Note that the empirical core of this piece overlaps with Roman-Alcalá (Citation2013, Citation2015, Citation2017).

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