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In this chapter we explore what we choose to call the everyday poetics1 of rural teachers as expressed through the production of cellphilms, or, as we refer to them here, pocket films, in recognition of the ever-present mobile phone that fits easily into a pocket.
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Mitchell, C., Lange, N.D., Moletsane, R. (2016). Poetry in a Pocket. In: MacEntee, K., Burkholder, C., Schwab-Cartas, J. (eds) What’s a Cellphilm?. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-573-9_2
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