Gay and pleasant land? Exploring sexuality, ageing and rurality in a multi-method, performative project

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 300-317

  Fenge, Lee Ann ^a   Jones, Kip ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method; multi method; participatory methodologies; Performative Social Science; Relational Aesthetics; rurality; sexuality; visual ethnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857081841     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcr058     Document Type: Review

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