Challenging and transforming power relations within community-based participatory research: the promise of a Foucauldian analysis

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 356-372

  Golob, Matias I ^a   Giles, Audrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

community based participatory research; Foucault; health promotion; immigrants; power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889659489     PISSN: 2159676X     EISSN: 1939845X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2013.846273     Document Type: Article

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