The heart of the matter: Using poetry as a method of ethnographic inquiry to represent and present experiences of the informally housed in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 623-630

  Carroll, Penelope ^a   Dew, Kevin ^b   Howden Chapman, Philippa ^c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

housing and health; marginal informal housing; poetic representation; thematic analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960938892     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800411414003     Document Type: Article

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