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When research teams disagree about framing Pacific gender studies

Our research team is studying Pacific gender roles and the mainland academics keep interpreting our findings through Western gender theory frameworks while those of us from the islands know it's more complex than that. We're supposed to publish together but we fundamentally disagree on how to present our conclusions.

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Academic collaborators struggle with whose theoretical framework should guide their shared interpretation of cultural data.

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