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Transmaterial worlding, the title of this chapter written by Gail Simon and Leah Salter, is an unfamiliar phrase to most English speakers. For these authors, the concept of transmaterial alerts the researcher to the significance of the material world in social life. Worlding is a new word that refers to the creation of the world through symbolic means, often stories. Transmaterial worlding describes researcher activity as storying a diverse material world. It is a way to attend to the human condition and the vitality of matter, to the interconnectedness between humans and non-humans, to life beyond species and life beyond what appears as death. Transmaterial worlding is here referred to as a method of inquiry that 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. We re-position ourselves from in-habiting or co-habiting the world to co-inhabiting the world.

‘Worlding’ describes the constant process of intra-becoming within and between species and matter. As an approach to inquiry, this includes not only observing, but also challenging, perturbing, disrupting, and transforming. There is no stasis, only movement. Deconstructing the relations in dominant discourses enables us to see how and why some voices (human or non-human) succeed in their stories being promoted and popularized in some contexts over others. This has the potential to render visible the context and connection between everyday activities and their local and global contexts. Research then becomes an opportunity to understand and disrupt power relations in order to challenge and reduce injustice.