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Contemplating the future of global development, this article explores integrating relationality, embodiment, and dialogical knowledge creation in development scholarship and praxis. Drawing on John Shotter’s concept of ‘withness-thinking’, we argue that development research and practice should look beyond thinking about to more thinking with. Through a collaborative autoethnographic approach, we examine two methods employed in our own research and peace practice: Pratley’s ‘food-as-method’, which utilizes food as a tool for dialogue and social connection, and Hyma’s Facilitative Listening Design, a participatory method of inquiry fostering deep listening, and ultimately dialogue, in conflict settings. Both approaches centre human experience, challenge conventional research-practice divides, and create spaces for transformative engagement. By synthesizing these methods, we demonstrate the potential of relational, embodied, and dialogical approaches. We conclude with a call for the interdisciplinary field of global development to prioritize such approaches as essential to fostering sustainable and contextually relevant change.
Hyma et al. (Mon,) studied this question.