Talking Back to Stigmatized Identities: Negotiation of Culturally Dominant Categorizations in Interviews with Shelter Residents

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 259-275

  Juhila, Kirsi ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

category; culturally dominant categorization; identity politics; rhetoric of the ordinary; stigmatized identity; talking back

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248609262     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325004045665     Document Type: Article

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