ABSTRACT
This chapter explores writing as inquiry as a feminist transdisciplinary research approach. Writing as a method of inquiry frames writing as a way of coming into knowing, rather than as a mode for imparting knowledge. It adopts a creative wayfinding approach that allows researchers to transcend borders separating disciplines, and the personal from the professional, to redefine ‘academic’ work through an intrinsically meaningful lens. This chapter explores the connection between the embodied nature of writing as inquiry with the process of seduction. Both activities harness rhythms of affect to evoke pleasure and intrinsic meaning. Writing as inquiry is depicted as a transgressive act since it challenges common assumptions concerning legitimate research. This explicit foregrounding of the researcher's desires breaks down the rigid barriers of positivist research discourses that separates, distances, and compartmentalises. Researchers across different disciplines can accordingly write to inquire by drawing on the senses to craft a feeling of intimacy and there-ness that expands our experience of space and time. They can be and become in relation to one another through the universal language of embodiment and affect.
