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Islands of democracy 民主之岛

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2018-06-11 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12462

Wouter Veenendaal

引用次数: 16

Leaving the field: (de‐)linked lives of the researcher and research assistant 离开研究领域:(de‐)研究者和研究助理的生活相关联

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12342

M. Caretta, Florence Jemutai Cheptum

引用次数: 10

Understanding ethnography through a life course framework : a research journey into alternative spiritual spaces 通过生命历程框架来理解民族志:一场进入另类精神空间的研究之旅

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12332

Francesca Fois

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引用次数: 12

Contested understandings of yaks on the eastern Tibetan Plateau: market logic, Tibetan Buddhism and indigenous knowledge 对青藏高原东部牦牛有争议的理解:市场逻辑、藏传佛教和本土知识

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12343

Gaerrang

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引用次数: 4

‘The will to empower’: reworking governmentality in the museum “授权的意志”:重塑博物馆的管理方式

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12330

D. Beel

引用次数: 3

An alternative way to measure the degree of sprawl and development patterns in Austin, TX 另一种衡量德克萨斯州奥斯汀市扩张程度和发展模式的方法

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12337

H. Lee, H. Kim, Sanghyeok Kang

引用次数: 0

Linking online social proximity and workplace location: social enterprise employees in British Columbia 链接在线社交接近度和工作地点:不列颠哥伦比亚省的社会企业员工

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12333

Oliver Keane, P. Hall, N. Schuurman, Paul Kingsbury

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引用次数: 7

On absence and abundance: biography as method in archival research. 论缺失与丰富：作为档案研究方法的传记。

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 Epub Date: 2017-03-01 DOI: 10.1111/area.12329

Jake Hodder

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引用次数: 0

When [inter]personal becomes transformational: [re‐]examining life course‐related emotions in PhD research 当[人际关系]变成转化:在博士研究中[重新]检查与生命历程相关的情绪

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12325

Isabella Ng

引用次数: 10

A life course approach to the field and fieldwork 对田野和田野工作的生命历程方法

Area (Oxford, England) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12362

Thomas Wimark, Nathaniel M. Lewis, M. Caretta

引用次数: 9