Abstract
‘The point’, as Donna Haraway (1994) notes, ‘is to get at how worlds are made and unmade, in order to participate in the processes, in order to foster some forms of life and not others’ (1994, p. 59). Taking a modest and humble stone as my point of departure this chapter will undertake what Haraway describes as materialized refiguaration (1994, p. 59), a practice that allows me to retrace my footsteps as I retrospectively reconsider data that emerged from an ethnographic project located in an inner city kindergarten in a northern English city.
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Jones, L. (2016). A Practice in Materialized Refiguration. In: Reinertsen, A.B. (eds) Becoming Earth. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-429-9_10
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