How are people making meaning 
                                                            of their health/illness situations?
                                      Intrapersonal
                                                               How are different people 
                                                            interpreting situations differently?
                                                            How are people situated and 
                                                                  constituted?
                 Hermeneutic 
              Phenomenological             Interpersonal
                    Lens                                    How are different interpretations 
                                                               shaping situations and 
                                                               interpersonal relations?
                                                             How is the way people are 
                                                            situated/constituted shaping 
                                      Contextual             their interpretations and 
                                                              meaningful experience?
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                                                How do relative 
                                                  positions of 
                               Intrapersonal     power shape 
                                                understanding?
                                                 How are social 
                                                 structure and 
                                                 arrangements 
              Critical Lens        Interpersonal   shaping 
                                                   people, 
                                                 situations, and 
                                                 interpersonal 
                                                 relationships?
                                                  How are power 
                                                    dynamics 
                                Contextual        shaping each 
                                                  interpersonal 
                                                  relationship?
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            Possibilities of a Critical Feminist Filter
                                   Intrapersonal
                                 How do gender, race, 
                                 class, age, ability, size, 
                                  and other forms of 
                                  social positioning 
                                 shape understanding?
                               Interpersonal
                            How do gender, race, class, 
                             age, ability, size, and other 
                             forms of social positioning 
                             shape each interpersonal 
                               relationship?
                                    Contextual
                                  How are gender, race, 
                                  class, age, ability, size, 
                                  and other forms of 
                                   social positioning 
                                  shaping people and 
                                    situations?
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               Possibilities of a Postcolonial Lens
     Key tenets:
     • Explicit emphasis on colonial and neo-colonial 
        relations; the continuities of history
     • Attention to global relations
     • Attention to material relations
     • Attention to the intersections among racism, 
        material relations, and colonial power
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               Postcolonial Theory in Action
    • Revisit, remember, and interrogate the colonial past 
      and its aftermath in today’s context
    • Critically analyze the experiences of colonialism and 
      their current manifestations 
    • Deliberately decenter dominant culture so that the 
      perspectives of those who have been marginalized 
      become starting points for knowledge construction 
    • Expand understanding of how conceptualizations of 
      race, racialization, and culture are constructed within 
      particular historical and current neocolonial contexts
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