The politics of performance: Methodological challenges of researching children's experiences of childhood through the lens of participatory video

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-243

  Lomax, Helen ^a   Fink, Janet ^a   Singh, Namita ^a   High, Christopher ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhoods; Conversation analysis; Film making; Identities; Participatory video methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957487771     PISSN: 13645579     EISSN: 14645300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2011.563622     Document Type: Article

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