Dwellers on the threshold of practice: The interpretivism of Bevir and Rhodes

Critical Policy Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-99

  Wagenaar, Hendrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agency; anti foundationalism; decenteredness; interpretivism; posthumanism; practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860995461     PISSN: 19460171     EISSN: 1946018X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2012.659890     Document Type: Article

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