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Wars of position: folk-politics, counter-hegemony, and the cooperative movement

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Ephemera: theory & politics in organization, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 85 - 115

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Interest in alternative forms of organising has been growing within a number of academic disciplines – inspired largely by the horizontal/prefigurative turn in recent social movement praxis. This prefigurative praxis, however, has been subject to a growing critique from those defending a more vertic...

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ISSN: 1473-2866
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