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Children's Geographies Volume 10, 2012 - Issue 4: AMBIGUOUS AGENCY: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS WITH CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN AFRICA
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‘Extraordinary survivors’ or ‘ordinary lives’? Embracing ‘everyday agency’ in social interventions with child-headed households in Zambia

Ruth Payne Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 399-411 | Published online: 17 Oct 2012

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