Reflections on Researcher Identity and Power: The Impact of Positionality on Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Processes and Outcomes

Critical Sociology

Volumn 41, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 1045-1063

  Muhammad, Michael ^a   Wallerstein, Nina ^a   Sussman, Andrew L ^a   Avila, Magdalena ^a   Belone, Lorenda ^a   Duran, Bonnie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

CBPR; community based participatory research; health inequities; power sharing; researcher identity; social justice; sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946022225     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920513516025     Document Type: Article

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