Reflections on interviewing foreign elites: Praxis, positionality, validity, and the cult of the insider

Geoforum

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 313-327

  Herod, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ECONOMIC POLICY; ELITE POLITICS; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 0032697340     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7185(99)00024-X     Document Type: Article

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