Questioning : This process constitutes both the point of departure and a means of evaluation and revision of our goals and our research design. This process is structuring as well as destabilising. These tales offer a wide range of experiences illuminating the different forms and functions that the act of questioning can have. 

  • Orient oneself
  • Formulate
  • Have an intuition
  • Reexamine
  • Doubt
  • Notice
  • Reformulate
  • Identify
  • Problematise

Exploring : This process refers to the actions and interactions through which we access, circumscribe and expand our research site and data. These actions and interactions allow us to work around constraints and possibilities in the field by immersing oneself, navigating with, against, and with AND against the social actors that make it up. These tales present a set of experiences about diverse aspects of this exploration. 

  • Access
  • Negotiate
  • Collaborate
  • Immerse oneself
  • Apprehend
  • Question common sense
  • Delimit
  • Manage
  • Put together
  • Observe
  • Interact
  • Consult

Grasping : This process comprises data collection, management and interpretation. It is a recurrent and recursive process, which is non-neutral, subject to debate and potentially confrontational. These tales unveil the tensions and the motivations in the generation of data and in the construction of meaning. 

  • Capture
  • Collect
  • Generate
  • Select
  • Organise
  • Manage
  • Transform
  • Connect
  • Confront
  • Make sense of

Sharing : This process involves all the practices that make up the different moments and forms of the spoken (to, with, for, against, about) and the unspoken in our research. These tales expose the complexity of what is shared and shareable in interactions in the field and in activities pertaining to dissemination, restitution and publication of results. 

  • Say
  • Hide
  • Silence
  • Exchange
  • Disseminate
  • Interact
  • Distribute
  • Adapt
  • Hedge