Positionality refers to

a. one’s social location within an intersecting web of socially constructed hierarchical categories.
b. one’s specific geographic location in terms of latitude and longitude.
c. one’s sense of belonging and security within a matrix of social groups.
d. one’s orientation to context within socially constructed systems.


a. one’s social location within an intersecting web of socially constructed hierarchical categories.

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