An ethic for researching multilingually in transnational, multilingual, multidisciplinary research teams

In this chapter, the authors draw on the experiences of the researchers who were part of a transnational network to explore processes of researching multilingually in an attempt to uncover researchers’ perspectives on matters. The possibilities, opportunities, and challenges of researching multilingually that they perceived in developing and undertaking their case study research, and in co-collaborations within the researcher network, the people hope, will contribute to the construction of an ethic of researching multilingually for other researcher networks working in similar geopolitical contexts. In developing an ethic of researching multilingually, they also wanted to resist the structural determinants of knowledge production that rely disproportionately on approaches and knowledge established and endorsed in the Anglophone world, where English is the de facto language of communication. In concluding, the authors offer recommendations for future international research teams who intend to adopt a researching multilingually ethic in an effort to decolonise multilingualism.