Studying with liberating movements restor(y)ing counter-colonial corporealities of belonging and becoming

A research which becomes through the study of how soil and human bodies carry memories and traces across territories and time scales. This thesis responds to eco-societal call for (re)vitalising of the liminal, the circular, the playful and the ambiguous through their performance. Highlighting the importance and possibility of sustaining practices of intra-relational becoming. Illustrating cases of (diasporic) capoeira and human-inclusive soil life as practices of vibrant and intra-active circular bodies ‘always becoming something other than what it was becoming’ (Merrell 2005, p. 274). These cases are studied as efforts to narrate and perform counter-colonial corporealities of belonging and becoming. As both might help us understand what it means to survive in the liminal spaces of suppression, exploitation, forced migration, intoxication, neglect, violence, commodification across territories and centuries.