Doing groups: Situating knowledge and creating stories

Australian Geographer

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-149

  McGregor, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Discussion groups; Environmental activists; Focus groups; Forests; Group research; Situated knowledge; Sociality; Storylines

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTALISM; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 9444286945     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0004918042000249449     Document Type: Article

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