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Engaging and Disrupting Power: The Public Value of Political Ethnography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2017

M. David Forrest*
Affiliation:
Oberlin College

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Symposium: Ethnography and Participant Observation: Political Science Research in this “Late Methodological Moment”
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2017 

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