What is the relationship between process and place in speculative research? This book turns to process philosophy to provide new theoretical and methodological openings onto this question. From the earliest stirrings of a research idea to incomplete endings, this book reinvigorates all stages of research through the processual concepts of Bergson (Intuition, Duration); Whitehead (Creatures, Societies); Deleuze (Becoming, A Life), and Glissant (Opacity, Poetics).

Reaffirming the role of place in process philosophy, the book simultaneously works to de-essentialise readings of place as bounded location. This comes at a time when relationships of land, culture, and identity are crucial to navigating contested histories and futures of life. As a field guide for setting place into motion, the book challenges separations of theory from method, body from environment, and thought from world.

It offers an essential guide to speculative research for new and experienced researchers across the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

David Rousell is an artist, writer, and researcher living on the unceded lands of the Eastern Kulin Nation in Narrm (Melbourne). He is an Associate Professor in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University and Fellow of the Regenerative Futures Institute.

Nina Williams lives on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country. Working as a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UNSW Canberra, her research is concept-led and theorises a variety of earthly practices of more-than-human creativity.

Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh is Associate Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UNSW Canberra living on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country. Her research is interested in the non-representational and postcolonial geographies between thinkers and ideas.