1. Chapter 2: Using Theoretical Lenses to Support Relational Inquiry

2. Hermeneutic Phenomenological Lens
Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Contextual
How are people making meaning of their health/illness situations?
How are different people interpreting situations differently?
How are people situated and constituted?
Hermeneutic Phenomenological Lens
How are different interpretations shaping situations and interpersonal relations?
How is the way people are situated/constituted shaping their interpretations and meaningful experience?

3. Critical Lens How do relative positions of power shape understanding?
Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Contextual
How do relative positions of power shape understanding?
How are social structure and arrangements shaping people, situations, and interpersonal relationships?
Critical Lens
How are power dynamics shaping each interpersonal relationship?

4. 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?

5. 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

6. 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

7. Possibilities of a Poststructural Filter
Each individual’s understanding?
How does language shape…
Every interpersonal relationship and interaction?
Social structures and arrangements?