Confused because exposed: Towards an ethnography of environmental suffering

Ethnography

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 123-144

  Auyero, Javier ^a   Swistun, Debora ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Environmental suffering; Pollution; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250704777     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138107078630     Document Type: Article

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