An approach conceived in the field and fine-tuned later, we discuss our “emergent research process” as a way to do relational research. Inspired by critical cartography, we conducted an evolving series of participatory mapping workshops to complement ongoing research on poverty in rural Morocco. Through an iterative expansion in the scope of work and methods used, we broadened our field of inquiry and made discoveries that departed from our original research question. This process brought to light “emergent insights” that we and our interlocutors strategically reconstructed into data that challenged the status quo and challenged decision-makers to recognise the importance of remoteness as a critical dimension of poverty. Conducting relational geographical research using an emergent workflow entailed expanding definitions of fieldwork and combining methods in ways that summoned us to rethink the boundaries of our own field of inquiry and speak back to dominant spatial ontologies of poverty.

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关于进行关系研究：作为新兴研究过程的参与式制图

在现场和设想的方法后微调，我们讨论我们的“紧急研究过程”，以此来做到关系研究。受批判性制图的启发，我们举办了一系列不断发展的参与式制图研讨会，以补充正在进行的摩洛哥农村贫困研究。通过工作范围和所用方法的迭代扩展，我们拓宽了我们的研究领域，并取得了偏离我们最初研究问题的发现。这一过程揭示了我们和我们的对话者战略性地重建为数据的“新兴见解”，这些数据挑战了现状，并挑战决策者认识到偏远作为贫困的一个关键维度的重要性。