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Drawing on the literature of sensuous geographies as well as on the work of Sara Ahmed and Rosemarie Garland Thomson, this chapter considers what it means to stumble, and what stumbling—a state of suspension, a liminal space between vertical and horizontal—might reveal about the relationships between bodies and the land on which they live, and from there, what it might tell us about belonging.
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Boon, S., Butler, L., Jefferies, D. (2018). Belongings: Stumble. In: Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90829-8_20
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