Navigating the (Dis)Appearing: River Islands, Emerging Kinships, and the Labors of Collaborative Fieldwork

ABSTRACT How do researchers navigate the “nervousness” of conducting fieldwork in the face of ethical discomfort? Drawing on our field notes, we show how collaborative fieldwork helped us navigate some of these challenges. We argue for an alternative way of imagining fieldwork that foregrounds collaboration as an ongoing research practice extending beyond just fieldwork.