Editorial: Discovering Industrial-Era Francophone Ecoregions

Abstract

How did we arrive at this issue of Dix-Neuf on ecoregions? To highlight the humanity at the heart of the Humanities, we want to share our journey through space and time behind the scenes of our joint activities. A publication is a snapshot of an evolution in thinking that is rarely linear and singular; rather, it is exploratory and plural, pregnant with hesitation and sudden turns, fed by conversations and chance encounters. Educationalists Carol Taylor and Susanne Gannon address this idea as part of their cooperation between Sheffield Hallam University and Western Sydney University: ‘we came to writing this article with presents gathered along the way. Presents: gifts and moments in time. […] [C]ollaborative writing […] gives onto a trans-individual “more-than-one” process of becoming-“we”’ (2018, 483–484). We have been fortunate to receive gifts of time and advice from collaborators and friends extending from Australia to the UK, all of whom have enriched the trans-individual work encapsulated in this project.