Power and pleasure in ethnographic home-work: Producing a recognizable ethics

Qualitative Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-51

  Youngblood Jackson, Alecia ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Pleasure; Post structural ethnography; Power knowledge; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549092619     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794107085294     Document Type: Article

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