Tidy concepts, messy lives: Defining tensions in the domestic and overseas careers of U.K. non-governmental professionals

Adventures in Aidland: The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 177-197

  Lewis, David ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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