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Gusfield (1981) The Culture of Public Problems

Gusfield, Joseph R. The Culture of Public Problems. Drinking, Driving and the Symbolic Order. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Classic text on how certain problems become problems 'international action has to do something about'.

Methods: Method 3: Discourses and materialities

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