Making Sense of School Shootings: Comparing Local Narratives of Solidarity and Conflict in Finland

Traumatology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 16-28

  Nurmi, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

collective narratives; community; mass violence; school shootings; social solidarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866076655     PISSN: 15347656     EISSN: 10859373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534765611426787     Document Type: Article

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