Fab picture @cogdog. Flowing water is a brilliant analogy for ‘becoming’ research. Reality is understood exactly as it is, as a continuously unfolding and emerging process flow, rather than relatively static entities to which change might happen. So we have knowing instead of knowledge, and express things as verbs or gerunds (with ‘ing’ at the end), instead of nouns.
There is a term in the management and organisation studies discipline called prehensive, which means research carried out from within, as an intrinsic part of a situation instead from-the-outside as a separated observer, and in-the-flow, instead of retrospective or after-the-fact research which looks to explain things, how things happened, or how the researcher interprets them (Langley and Tsoukas, 2016, p.8). This is pretty profound and I think resonates with indigenous value systems and ways of acting and thinking. It is also very mutually respectful and interrelated, and a different and more open way of thinking about research which sets out to improve situations. Just some thoughts about ‘becoming’.