Leashes and lies: Navigating the colonial tensions of institutional ethics of research involving indigenous peoples in Canada

International Indigenous Policy Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Stiegman, Martha L ^a   Castleden, Heather ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community based participatory research; Indigenous research; Relational ethics; Research ethics boards

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020473383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19165781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18584/iipj.2015.6.3.2     Document Type: Article

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