Representing ‘Others’: avoiding the reproduction of unequal social relations in research
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Representing ‘Others’: avoiding the reproduction of unequal social relations in research

Tam Truong Donnelly , Department of Individual Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program, University of British Columbia, Canada

In this paper, the final one in a series of four articles on post-colonial research, Tam Truong Donnelly argues that some researchers have represented ‘Others’ in ways that tend to reproduce unequal social relations. Researchers undertaking cross-cultural studies must recognise how meanings are constructed in and through systems of representation, the article concludes

Nurse Researcher. 9, 3, 57-67. doi: 10.7748/nr2002.04.9.3.57.c6189

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