GIS as qualitative research: Knowledge, participatory politics and cartographies of affect

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 287-304

  Aitken, Stuart C ^a   Kwan, Mei Po ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9780857021090.n18     Document Type: Chapter

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