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Research Article

Unsettling feelings in the classroom: scaffolding pedagogies of discomfort as part of decolonising human geography in higher education

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Pages 805-824 | Received 25 Mar 2021, Accepted 24 Oct 2021, Published online: 26 Nov 2021

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