If you are vulnerable and you know it raise your hand: Experiences from working in post-tsunami Thailand

Emotion, Space and Society

Volumn 17, Issue , 2015, Pages 45-54

  Calgaro, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disasters; Emotion; Fieldwork; Place; Researcher trauma; Traumascapes; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941702203     PISSN: 17554586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2015.09.003     Document Type: Article

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