Identity negotiations in narrative accounts about poverty

Discourse and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 565-591

  van de Mieroop, Dorien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

accounts; categorization; identity construction; interviews; motherhood; narrative; poverty; recipient design

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051919621     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926511405423     Document Type: Article

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