The Ambivalent Insider/Outsider Status of Academic 'Homecomers': Observations on Identity and Field Research in the Nigerian Delta

Sociology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 540-548

  Oriola, Temitope ^a   Haggerty, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

homecomers; insider outsider; political ethnography; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862188062     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038511425559     Document Type: Article

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