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Research Article

Unsettling orthodoxy via epistemological jailbreak: Rethinking childhood, psychology, and wellbeing from the Caribbean

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Pages 17-36 | Received 17 Aug 2021, Accepted 04 Feb 2022, Published online: 02 Mar 2022

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