Close encounters: researching intimate lives in Europe
This research note aims to extend the discussion on the methodological implications of doing research on intimacy and personal life. Drawing on a comparative study concerned with the intimate lives of those who live outside the conventional, modern western nuclear family, it reflects on the processe...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10316/79660 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/79660 |
| Summary: | This research note aims to extend the discussion on the methodological implications of doing research on intimacy and personal life. Drawing on a comparative study concerned with the intimate lives of those who live outside the conventional, modern western nuclear family, it reflects on the processes of gaining access to often hard-to-reach populations which informed and influenced the empirical work that we carried out in four European countries. |
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