Neither "thick" nor "thin": Reconceptualising agency and childhood relationally

Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood: New Perspectives in Childhood Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 48-60

  Esser, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

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EID: 84967693062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315722245     Document Type: Chapter

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