'Making things happen': Literacy and agency in housing struggles in South Africa

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 892-912

  Kell, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; HOUSING PROVISION; LANGUAGE; LITERACY; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOCIAL STATUS;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 52349116881     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220380802058263     Document Type: Article

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