The ethnography of resistance then and now: On thickness and activist engagement in the twenty-first century

History and Anthropology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 431-451

  Urla, Jacqueline ^a   Helepololei, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Cultural Critique; Engaged Research; Ethnography; Resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904962307     PISSN: 02757206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2014.930456     Document Type: Review

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