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Qualitative Inquiry and the Measuring Apparatus

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She fit in the corner tightly, squeezing through the seams of plasterboard. Butt to the corner, finger in mouth, blanket in hand, at once desiring to be found and wanting to disappear. Energetically calling for notice and thus signaling of mother love while yearning for seepage into the walls and thus forgetting all. No one came, and she did not disappear, so she emerged damaged.

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Kaufmann, J. (2016). Qualitative Inquiry and the Measuring Apparatus. In: Reinertsen, A.B. (eds) Becoming Earth. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-429-9_2

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