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This chapter builds links between the geographic phenomenon of erosion and Black and Indigenous engagements with fugitivity. In particular, it interrogates the possibilities of a fugitive geography, considering the idea of erosion not as destructive, but rather as revelatory. Noisy, exuberant, and excessive, a fugitive geography challenges notions of land and bodies controllable, countable, and containable. This chapter suggests that a fugitive approach to geography, as an opening to chaos, is an invitation to new ways of seeing.
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Boon, S., Butler, L., Jefferies, D. (2018). Erosion: Fugitivity. In: Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90829-8_10
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