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When No “Official Record” Exists?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2010

Sandra J. Grey
Sandra J. Grey
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Victoria University of Wellington
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Social movements seek social and political change in very specific political, economic, and cultural contexts. Their very imperative for structural change means that they are nonbureaucratic, noninstitutional, fluid collectives that have no single head office and few formal records of their existence. This poses a substantial problem for researchers—how do we locate, measure, and record the trajectories of these phenomena?

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 2010 , pp. 622 - 629
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2010

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