The body as research tool: Embodied practice and children's geographies

Children's Geographies

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 349-362

  Woodyer, Tara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Heterogeneous geographies; Materiality; Performance; Research relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952679808     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733280802338056     Document Type: Article

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