2016 / 2017

Socialist Biography and Post-socialist Ethnography: On the Ethical Dilemmas of Trust and Intimacy during Fieldwork

Title

Socialist Biography and Post-socialist Ethnography: On the Ethical Dilemmas of Trust and Intimacy during Fieldwork

Speaker(s)

Speaker: Dr Grit Wesser # University of Edinburgh

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Introduced by

Date and Time

25th Nov 2016 15:00 - 25th Nov 2016 17:00

Location

Seminar Room 2, Chrystal macmillan Building, 15A George Square

URL

http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/events/research_seminars/2016_2017/socialist_biography_and_post-socialist_ethnography_on_the_ethical_dilemmas_of_trust_and_intimacy_during_fieldwork

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