Interactive research and the construction of knowledge in conflict-affected settings

Disasters

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Van der Haar, Gemma ^a   Heijmans, Annelies ^b   Hilhorst, Dorothea ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Independent researcher and consultant ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaborative research; Conflict research; Ethnography; Sense making

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; RESEARCH;

ARTICLE; COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH; CONFLICT RESEARCH; COOPERATION; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SENSE-MAKING; WAR;

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH; CONFLICT RESEARCH; ETHNOGRAPHY; SENSE-MAKING;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; RESEARCH; WAR;

EID: 84879021647     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/disa.12010     Document Type: Article

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