The allure and privileging of danger over everyday practice in field research

Area

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 419-425

  Nelson, Ingrid L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emotion; Ethnography; Forests; Mozambique; Positionality; Researcher intermediaries

Indexed keywords

FIELDWORK; RESEARCH;

MOZAMBIQUE;

EID: 84887154982     PISSN: 00040894     EISSN: 14754762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/area.12036     Document Type: Article

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