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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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