Producing children's corporeal privacy: Ethnographic video recording as material-discursive practice

Qualitative Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 249-268

  Aarsand, Pål ^a   Forsberg, Lucas ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Children; Embodiment; Ethics; Ethnography; Family interaction; Material discursive practice; Private public distinction; Reflexivity; Video recording

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950673861     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794109356744     Document Type: Article

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