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Sitting on the number 80 Parc bus in Montreal, I am grateful to have found a seat. It has been a long day. My back hurts, my stomach rumbles. I settle into the blue and beige plastic chair at the back of the bus and let the lights and the noise and the bumping of the road and the people beside me blur into one bodily sensation.
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Murad, Z. (2013). Imperial Imaginations & Decolonizing Dreams. In: Wane, N., Jagire, J., Murad, Z. (eds) Ruptures. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-446-8_19
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