ABSTRACT
Nagar (2014) suggests that productive research partnerships across geographical and political spaces and places are possible when considered within the frameworks of ‘radical vulnerability’ and ‘situated solidarities’. In this chapter, we consider the challenges of actualising these concepts by reflecting on our research partnership within one specific project. While we reflected regularly on our respective interactions with our research participants, in this chapter we examine our relationship with one another as co-investigators in light of our larger contextual and personal histories. We adopt the format utilised by Richardson and Lockridge (2004) to explore how different writing forms and the very process of writing itself facilitates new understandings of research relationships and practices. We use personal narratives to reflect on our embodied experiences of fieldwork in Delhi, India, and consider how it impacts our working relationship with one another and with our research partners. Through the use of narrative and selected creative analytic practices (CAP), we unearth new insights that will transform our subsequent future writing and research collaborations.
