'It's more than just what it is': Defetishising commodities, expanding fields, mobilising change...

Geoforum

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1113-1126

  Cook, Ian ^a   Evans, James ^a   Griffiths, Helen ^a   Morris, Rebecca ^a   Wrathmell, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Commodity fetishism; Critical pedagogy; Expanded field; Material culture; Radical geography

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; CULTURE; HIGHER EDUCATION; LEARNING; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STUDENT; TEACHING;

EID: 34848884869     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.08.015     Document Type: Article

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