Mapping the super-whale: Towards a mobile ethnography of situated globalities

Mobilities

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 507-528

  Blok, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Actor network theory (ANT); Global scale ethnography; Japanese whaling; Mapping; Mobile methods

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIELDWORK; MAPPING; METHODOLOGY; WHALING;

CETACEA;

EID: 77957035097     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2010.510335     Document Type: Article

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