This panel builds on feminist STS commitments to a knowledge politics of care and attends to the affective troubles that emerge in interdisciplinary collaborations, particularly those between ethnographers and technoscientists. We seek testimonies and both embodied and empirical knowledge on how ethnographers negotiate our roles in integrative research when constrained by what our technoscientific collaborators want, what funders want, what our home institutions expect, what we want to learn from the worlds we study, and the social transformations we envision within and beyond science. Questions that animate our collective inquiry include:

How do ethnographers negotiate the politics of care in interdisciplinary collaborations? Specifically, how can we enact and advance testimonial justice, mutual intelligibility, and reciprocality across unequal power relations and differences in disciplinary cultures and social identities?

How do ethnographers care about and for our collaborators, stakeholders, funders, careers and incomes, and commitments to justice at all stages of collaborative research, including project design, funding proposals, data collection and analysis, and knowledge dissemination?

What labor becomes visible when attending ethnographically to politics of care in interdisciplinary collaborations? What equitable relations become possible?

How is work distributed in integrative research, and what roles do disciplinary status, gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality play both in its allocation and recognition?

How do ethnographers navigate our status as insiders or outsiders, supporters or critics, or researchers or consultants?

Where does theorizing end and social transformation begin, and who is responsible for demarcating these engagements within integrative research?