Interpreting family struggles in West Africa across Majority-Minority world boundaries: tensions and possibilities.
The 'family' is associated with powerful, often emotive discourses in both the Majority and Minority worlds. However, family geographies to date have been largely focused on research with children and families in the Minority world, reflecting the wider dominance of geographical knowledge and social...
| Publicado en: | Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 717 - 733 |
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May2020
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