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Citizen Participation and Participatory Research in the Field of Social Inequalities (Nouvelles pratiques sociales; vol. 30, no. 1) Year of publication: 2018 Author: Baptiste Godrie | Guillaume Ouellet | Robert Bastien | Sylvia Bissonnette | Jean Gagné | Luc Gaudet | Audrey Gonin | Isabelle Laurin | Chrisopher McAll | Geneviève McClure | François Régimbal | Jean-François René | Mireille Tremblay Corporate author: University of Quebec at Montreal This article analyzes the effect of citizen participation on social inequalities, based on research conducted by a multidisciplinary team of researchers and community partners. Citizen participation may ensure comments and knowledge that have been completely or partially left out of the public space to emerge, and can help participants to get rid of a pre-established look towards people living in poverty. The analysis also focuses on power relations build during participatory research processes. 
The Individualization of Intervention in Community Organizations: Openings or Barriers in Relation to Democracy? Year of publication: 2009 Author: Jean-François René Corporate author: Nouvelles pratiques sociales This paper questions the fact that in some community-based organisations the level of intervention is often the individual rather than the community. This trend interferes with the internal participatory democratic practices within these organisations. To explain this relatively recent situation (beginning of the present decade) in many community-based organisations, various factors are taken into account : the large number of requests received by these groups ; the way we solve problems that people face ; the institutionalization of community intervention ; the pressure on organisations to integrate state services agendas. In this context, what actions are needed to stimulate the internal democratic practices within these groups ?