From the streets to the town halls: Municipalist platforms in the post-Yugoslav space.
In the last decade, urban social movements that emerged in the Yugoslav successor states decided to form political platforms to enter the institutional arena, often after years of mobilisation for the right to the city. Their aim was to seize power at the local level, trying to provide an answer to...
| Publicado en: | Urban Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.) Vol. 60; no. 11; pp. 2158 - 2176 |
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