Making the familiar strange: Can visual research methods render the familiar setting more perceptible?

Qualitative Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 91-111

  Mannay, Dawn ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; Collages; Daughters; Familiarity; Mothers; Participatory methods; Photographs; Visual methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649245256     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794109348684     Document Type: Article

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