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When researching Otherness against the colonial or apartheid legacy (be it with respect to women, white or black people, or rural communities, for example), the relation between the subject and the object of research develops against the background of the social relations that have been objectively structured in the past, and are currently reproduced.
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Cross, M., Ndofirepi, A. (2017). Critical Scholarship in South Africa. In: Cross, M., Ndofirepi, A. (eds) Knowledge and Change in African Universities. African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-845-7_5
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