Not just writing about: a duoethnography of ethnographic becoming through Writing-With

This duoethnographic inquiry explores Writing-With as a relational method that reshapes how we understand ethnographic practice. Emerging from co-writing encounters between two researchers, the article traces how writing itself became a site of field construction, ethical negotiation, and methodological insight. Through vignettes drawn from our shared authorship, moments of silence, citation tension, authorship discomfort, and unanswered questions, we show how Writing-With invites a rethinking of research not as representation but as relation. We situate this stance within and beyond duoethnographic traditions, emphasising writing as slow, recursive, and responsive. Rather than offering Writing-With as a fixed method, we propose it as a living inquiry: one that remains attentive to power, reflexivity, and the unfinished nature of ethnographic becoming. The article closes by inviting others to notice how their own writing practices might serve not only as documentation, but as co-composition of self, method, and meaning.