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This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure a

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Klein (political science, Bar-Ilan U.) is a board member of B'tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. He draws on a