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Research Article

‘We want kids, not nukes’: a critical discourse analysis of newspaper representations of children in anti-nuclear movements in Taiwan, 1987–2019

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Pages 308-320 | Received 08 Aug 2023, Accepted 27 Apr 2024, Published online: 04 May 2024

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