‘People are willing to fight to the end’. Romanticising the ‘moral’ in moral economies of irrigation

‘People are willing to fight to the end’. Romanticising the ‘moral’ in moral economies of irrigation
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“人们愿意战斗到底”,将灌溉的道德经济中的“道德”浪漫化。

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