Collaborative Writing as a Process of Inquiry within Knowledge Ecologies

While the content presented in this article is propositional in form, what it aims to reveal is the processual / procedural nature of emergent multi-vocal research, as well as the tacit knowledges that grow through the process of collaborative writing within the complex networks (root systems) of knowledge ecologies. This contribution hopes to unearth the ephemeralities of the various processes, which do not and cannot appear on the page (a place and form commonly utilized as the medium of choice for academic knowledge transmission). This article starts by mapping the multi-pronged and multi-layered landscape of our research assemblage and explores the notion of epistemic justice as an orientation towards entangled knowledge ecologies through the medium of collaborative writing and metaphor-work, which we take up in the second part of the article. Finally, we journey back to the broader research project and what our co-writing as a method of inquiry revealed along the way. We revisit how our journey of communal gathering continues to reflect and rebuild our evolving curiosities and attunements to the broader research terrain on Expanding Knowledge Landscapes.