"I don't know why they call it the Lake District they might as well call it the rock district!" The workings of humour and laughter in research with members of visually impaired walking groups

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1080-1095

  Macpherson, Hannah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; LANDSCAPE; RESEARCH; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 65949094584     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: 14723433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d2708     Document Type: Article

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