Living documents: A feminist psychosocial approach to the relational politics of policy documentation

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 506-528

  Hunter, Shona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit cultures; Otherness; Postcolonial; Resistance; Transitional objects; Writing

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CULTURE; EDUCATION; FEMINISM; POLICY MAKING; POST-COLONIALISM; PSYCHOLOGY; SERVICE PROVISION;

EID: 53349171664     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018308095300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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