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The use of drawings in social research is located within several broad yet overlapping areas of contemporary study. These include arts-based or artsinformed research (Knowles & Cole, 2008), participatory visual methodologies (De Lange, Mitchell, & Stuart, 2007; Rose, 2001), textual approaches in visual studies in the social sciences (Mitchell, 2011), as well as the use of drawings in psychology.
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Mitchell, C., Theron, L., Stuart, J., Smith, A., Campbell, Z. (2011). Drawings as Research Method. In: Theron, L., Mitchell, C., Mitchell, C., Smith, A., Smith, A., Stuart, J. (eds) Picturing Research. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-596-3_2
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