Articulating discursive and materialist conceptions of practice in the logics approach to critical policy analysis

Critical Policy Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 414-433

  West, Karen ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

logics of critical explanation; material semiotic relationality; new materialist turn; post structuralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855979022     PISSN: 19460171     EISSN: 1946018X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2011.628033     Document Type: Article

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