We wondered what would be produced if we framed contestation as something other than a compulsion to resolve conflicting claims, desires, or views. Contestation on its own can simply be a state of being, a place where disagreement lives. Contestation is a space that many of us occupy as a location from which to pose questions. In this issue we attempt to inhabit contestation as constituting an unresolved continuum of exchange that might lead to more than a compromised reconciliation or the stagnation of incommensurability.

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