Southern African Rurality in Higher Education
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK cont..
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Positional identities
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‘day-to- day and on the
ground relations of power, deference and
entitlement, social affiliation and distance – with
the social-interactional, social-relational structures
of the lived world’ (p 127).
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Allows us to explore the influences of rural figured
worlds upon the new worlds of higher education
and the improvisations students make.




