ABSTRACT
There is a second corollary assumption pertaining to who has the right to ontological statements and who does not. In this instance it manifests as the assumption that everyone is more or less ‘at risk’, just as they had previously been disease ridden, ‘uncivilised’ and ‘underdeveloped’ in the terms set out in a foreign narrative. The result is a threat to critical and reflexive scholarship and a continuation of the narratives of difference. The North defines the supposed singular modern world, while the South is disciplined through discourses of relevance, in actual fact a by-product of the conceivable range of strategies for professional and institutional survival in a given time and space.
