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Stretching the boundaries of transformative sustainability learning: On the importance of decolonizing ways of knowing and relations with the more-than-human

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Pages 1489-1500 | Received 10 Jun 2016, Accepted 15 Nov 2016, Published online: 07 Dec 2016

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