Time for a party!: Making sense of the commercialisation of leisure space for children

Children's Geographies: Playing, Living, Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 86-100

  McKendrick, John H ^a   Bradford, Michael G ^b   Fielder, Anna V ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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