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Crisis? Whose Crisis? - Jeffrey C. Alexander, What Makes a Social Crisis? The Societalization of Social Problems (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2019, 173 p.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

Alan Scott*
Affiliation:
University of New England (NSW) and University of Innsbruck (Austria) [ascott39@une.edu.au].
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