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This chapter considers the conceptual potential of mud. A substance located at the midway point between the solid and the liquid, mud is a useful metaphor that has been central to how we have imagined human social relations. But mud is also an agentic substance, capable of articulating its own meanings. In its continual shifting, it can enable a transcorporeal politics of belonging, a model for living together in an ever-eroding, ever-shifting, constantly resurfacing world.
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Boon, S., Butler, L., Jefferies, D. (2018). Memories: Mud. In: Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90829-8_5
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