Description
Book SynopsisAs a research methodology, walking has a diverse and extensive history in the social sciences and humanities, underscoring its value for conducting research that is situated, relational, and material. Building on the importance of place, sensory inquiry, embodiment, and rhythm within walking research, this book offers four new concepts for walking methodologies that are accountable to an ethics and politics of the more-than-human: Land and geos, affect, transmaterial and movement. The book carefully considers the more-than-human dimensions of walking methodologies by engaging with feminist new materialisms, posthumanisms, affect theory, trans and queer theory, Indigenous theories, and critical race and disability scholarship. These more-than-human theories rub frictionally against the history of walking scholarship and offer crucial insights into the potential of walking as a qualitative research methodology in a more-than-human world. Theoretically innov
Trade Review
"The argument throughout is clearly and thoroughly informed by a strong theoretical and methodological framework. It highlights a wide range of ways in which one can practice walking as research and the many ways in which this can be recorded, captured, translated and activated through relational interventions and events. This book is a real asset, particularly if you have already engaged with these methods and want to open up and challenge your methodological horizon."
-Magali Peyrefitte, Brunel University
Table of ContentsPART I Overview
1. WalkingLab: Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World
2. Affective Transmaterialities and the Primacy of Movement
PART II Aberrant Case Studies in Walking Research
3. Stone Walks: Archives of Feeling and Queer Political Imaginaries
4. Edible Matters: Taste Tours and Food Forays on Foot
5. Emergent Publics: Collective Movement and Minor "p" Politics with Youth
6. Towards a Rhythmic Account of Working Together and Taking Part
7. "Wood Land School:" Critical Negotiation of Land and Indigenous Realities
PART III Speculative Probings
8. Propositions for the Future of Walking Research in Three Parts
