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Qualitative Sociology
Published in: Qualitative Sociology 3/2006

01-09-2006 | Special Issue: Political Ethnography I

Introductory Note to Politics under the Microscope: Special Issue on Political Ethnography I

Author: Javier Auyero

Published in: Qualitative Sociology | Issue 3/2006

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“Go and sit in the lounges of the luxury hotels and on the doorsteps of the flophouses; sit on the Gold Coast settees and on the slum shakedown; sit in the Orchestra Hall and the Star and Garter Burlesque. In short, gentlemen, go get the seat of your pants dirty in real research.”
Robert Park
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Metadata
Title
Introductory Note to Politics under the Microscope: Special Issue on Political Ethnography I
Author
Javier Auyero
Publication date
01-09-2006
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Qualitative Sociology / Issue 3/2006
Print ISSN: 0162-0436
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7837
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-006-9028-7

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