Archiving qualitative data in the context of a society coming out of conflict: Some lessons from Northern Ireland

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Schubotz, Dirk ^a   Melaugh, Martin ^b   McLoughlin, Peter ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archiving; Biographies; Conflict; Northern Ireland; Remembering

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053518145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14385627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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