Sweet and bitter places: The politics of schoolchildren's orientation in rural Uganda

Children's Places: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 179-196

  Meinert, Lotte ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 85076172455     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203605134-19     Document Type: Chapter

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