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This piece aims to prompt the audience to engage with the contextual background of “An Interview with Harriet Hawkins,” conducted by Jinhyoung Lee. Harriet Hawkins’ works over the past ten years can be summarised using three keywords: creativity, GeoHumanities, and the politics of writing. They are considered to encapsulate the essence of her ongoing research. First, creativity is understood not only as the preserve of the artistic genius that produces creative outputs but also as an everyday creative practice that enables individuals to live differently. In this vein, she seeks to advance a creative (re)turn in geography. Second, the term “GeoHumanities” can be defined as the intensification of work at the intersections of geographical practice with arts and humanities practice. It allows her to conceptualise the notion of “a research aesthetics,” as conducted by artists, and “an experiment with the GeoHumanities,” as practised by researchers. Finally, Hawkins endeavours to combine paraethonography and autoethonography by orienting “an injunction to keep questioning” towards her research culture and her own research. This can be defined as a politics of writing that attempts to envisage life, research, and worlds in a different manner.