ABSTRACT
In this chapter tha authors talk about stories of the evolution of the research team as a working body, the ongoing adaptations of their methodologies and practices, and the development of their co-constructed, guiding concepts, as they were developed within, and reflect, generative frictions, dissensus, and a distributed, rhizomatic approach to knowledge production. The initial tensions between the scholarly approach of the university and the lived-experience approach of the community researchers surfaced more vividly than the university researchers expected. Generative frictions in conversation led to the political and epistemological ideas of dissensus/pluralist agonism and dialogicality, respectively. In their work, the authors are intentionally crossing traditional disciplinary and cultural boundaries. In the community, they find and feel themselves "living in the versus" as they recognize the contrary discourses necessary for authentic engagement and sustainable change.
