ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the two sites of engagement where tourism imponderables surface as important elements of mattering as they are jointly engaged with and enacted by the researcher and other actors. It argues that research in terms of composition revolves around collaboration and engagement between the researcher and other actors. Tourism research is thereby always related to ontological politics. When we as researchers engage in research we are busy making realities and are "participants in the 'becoming world' where everything is interconnected and learning happens in a stumbling, trial and error sort of way". The researchers were in the role of the 'novices' advised by the 'local expert'. When departing they thanked him and said they would be back at the start of the tourism season. The positionality of Katrin Anna Lund as a researcher immediately altered. She had unwittingly abandoned her tasks as a distant researcher and engaged directly with the imponderabilia of everyday life at the museum cafe.
