Counter-surveillant organizing during the secessionist cycle of contention in Catalonia.
The literature on repression in social movement studies focuses mainly on protest behavior and neglects other aspects of activism. This paper expands this literature by looking at how surveillance as a covert form of repression affects organizational practices in social movements. The secessionist m...
| Publicado en: | Social Movement Studies Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 623 - 640 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2024
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