lives of others;6 asks daring questions intended to provoke social change and explores the power of narrative and discourse alongside discussion of whose voices and lives matter, and what counts as knowledge, evidence or relevance to the subject;
7 situates experience and description in power structures, local and global contexts, discursive and material systems, historic and contemporary experience, richly inclusive of material from other cultures, materialities, human and non-human systems;
8 provides intimate detail of relational communication from within activities;
9 offers an honest, transparent and reflexive account about the selection of material and interpretation and/or use of the material, why the researchers are doing this research, why now and with what intentions;
10 discusses relational ethics throughout the research process through a rich and overt consideration/critique of power relations, colonising practices, and differences in personal and communal experience, in research relationships and wider socio-political systems;
11 discusses and evidences how the research makes an original and impactful contribution to the field of social constructionist and systemic inquiry, to members of the public, or other professionals, communities or organisations.
Conclusion
In this chapter we have set out how transmaterial worlding as onto-epistemological inquiry supports transformative research into relations between discourse and a transmaterial world. Transmaterial worlding as a method of inquiry has an important role to play in showing how language works in and between human and non-human relationships to maintain or disrupt practices of power that enable or prevent social justice. Co-construction as a form of inquiry and worlding process is an important tool in (i) understanding and supporting decolonial, new materialist strategies to show, extend and disrupt relationships between language and material structures, and (ii) locating human activity as co-inhabitation within a wider fluid sphere of human and non-human environmental context. Examples of systemic questions demonstrate transformative possibilities for generating new and old knowledges that impact on daily practice. Signposts are offered for co-constructionist inquiry as transmaterial worlding to support research which aims to transform lives and create sustainable futures. Transmaterial worlding encourages the development of new practices and is curious about accounts of the fluid and shifting connections between experience and explanation, between theory and practice, language and matter.
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