Introduction: The Elephant in the Living Room, OR Advancing the Conversation about the Politics of Evidence

Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 9-52

  Denzin, Norman K ^a   Giardina, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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