Nordic co-operationNordic co-operation is one of the world's most extensive forms of regional collaboration, involving Denmark,

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In this paper, we draw on a relational ontology to explore what collaborative ways of knowing might mean in the field of tourism research. Using tourism as a prism to explore the messy realities of collaborative knowledge production, we argue that knowledge is always co-created through situated practices. By focusing on collaboration and co-creation of research and based on a discussion on what, how and where to know we suggest four orientations of research practices that clarify what collaborative research can be about and how it is of value. Research collaboration should capture the situated practices, strive for critical proximity, be interventionist and seek to come to matter in new ways.

The Call for Papers to this Special Issue was published in early April, as the whole world was still hesitantly cancelling and postponing events planned for the year with the COVID-19 pandemic in its initial global reach. We have since seen a glut of papers and special issues that have been published in the past half year, during which we have been "slowing down" as well as "speeding up" in different ways in our academic lives. The original CfP highlighted the earth's environmental crisis as a first matter, and it looked at COVID-19 as a potential for reduced global mobility and consumption. Now, as the people around the world starts to realise that we will be living WITH the virus still for years to come, rather than imagining a sudden end to it as the initial predictions forecasted, we stand on the cusp of new scenarios. Global mobility has indeed been dramatically reduced, but new types of mobility have also emerged. After the initial reduction in consumption, due to total closedowns of manufacturing and transport infrastructure, a new boom of different consumption related to home schooling and offices, gardening and outdoor recreation have emerged.Jennie: When we proposed the theme of "slowing down with tourism" earlier this year, we were just beginning to sense the spatiotemporal shifts brought on by the pandemic. Life for those of us lucky enough to be able to work from home was simultaneously speeding up and slowing down, as Johan notes. New temporal landscapes were emerging, ones marked by urgency and monotony, by zoom invites, time zone calculators, and "What day is it, again?," by pressing responsibilities, antsy toddlers, bored teenagers, and corporate requests for our patience with the inevitable delays due to COVID-19.Time is not simply marching on; it is layering in on itself and pooling up.As scholars and teachers of tourism, we have been intrigued by the possibility of doing things differently and at a different pace. Like Gunnar and Johan describe below, my students and I had to get up to speed with new online platforms. I had to revise syllabi to capture the timeliness of the moment. And yet I felt my teaching and scholarship slowing down. Teaching tourism has certainly posed new opportunities, such as Outi's embrace of teaching outdoors or, in my case, incorporating projects on virtual tourism and staycations while we followed the virus's brutal itinerary from one destination to the next. In many special issues like this one, and in webinars and zoom conferences, tourism scholars have amplified our field's longstanding