Turning Productive Failures Into Creative Possibilities: Women Workers Shaping Fieldwork Methods in Tamil Nadu, India.
In this article, I reflect on the 'creative turn' to my research as I encountered methodological failures in doing field research in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. My research was focused around the lives and labor of young migrant women who had come to work in an electronics factory insid...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Review Vol. 110; no. 1/2; pp. 145 - 160 |
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Jan-Jun 2020
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