Speaking power to power: Grassroots democracy in the anti-fracking movement in Bulgaria.

@article{Mihaylov2020SpeakingPT,
  title={Speaking power to power: Grassroots democracy in the anti-fracking movement in Bulgaria.},
  author={Nikolay L. Mihaylov},
  journal={Journal of community psychology},
  year={2020},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:215758606}
}
The study draws on social movements, community psychology, and grassroots democracy theory to explore, describe and critique how participants in the AFM collectively constructed meanings and practices of organizing in interaction with the sociopolitical context as they expanded their efforts from the local to the national level of policy-making.
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