Challenges for Social-Change Organizing in Rural Areas.
Corporate criminality and corporate welfare proliferate, and their victims mount. Rural inhabitants, human and nonhuman, are among those most affected. Rural areas are particularly affected by chemical contamination, fossil fuel exploitation, the absence of coverage of relevant local issues by the m...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Economics & Sociology Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 721 - 762 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2016
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