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“If you want to understand the big issues, you need to understand the everyday practices that constitute them”: Lucy Suchman in Conversation With Dominik Gerst & Hannes Krämer

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“If you want to understand the big issues, you need to understand the everyday practices that constitute them”: Lucy Suchman in Conversation With Dominik Gerst & Hannes Krämer. / Suchman, L.A.; Gerst, D.; Krämer, H.
In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, Vol. 20, No. 2, 01.05.2019.

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Suchman, LA, Gerst, D & Krämer, H 2019, '“If you want to understand the big issues, you need to understand the everyday practices that constitute them”: Lucy Suchman in Conversation With Dominik Gerst & Hannes Krämer', Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, vol. 20, no. 2. https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3252

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Suchman, L. A., Gerst, D., & Krämer, H. (2019). “If you want to understand the big issues, you need to understand the everyday practices that constitute them”: Lucy Suchman in Conversation With Dominik Gerst & Hannes Krämer. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3252

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Suchman LA, Gerst D, Krämer H. “If you want to understand the big issues, you need to understand the everyday practices that constitute them”: Lucy Suchman in Conversation With Dominik Gerst & Hannes Krämer. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung. 2019 May 1;20(2). doi: 10.17169/fqs-20.2.3252

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Suchman, L.A. ; Gerst, D. ; Krämer, H. / “If you want to understand the big issues, you need to understand the everyday practices that constitute them” : Lucy Suchman in Conversation With Dominik Gerst & Hannes Krämer. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung. 2019 ; Vol. 20, No. 2.

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