Full Description
In recent years, walking has emerged as a methodological tool and as a conceptually exciting point of departure across a range of disciplines and practices. This volume explores walking as a form of embodied research practice that offers fresh perspectives on key contemporary debates and areas of interest. These include the climate emergency and the debate around the Anthropocene, decolonial thinking and the struggle for social justice, feminist and queer walking methodologies, and the notion of the 'infraordinary' and practices of everyday life. Contributions to this volume are by scholars, artists and practitioners drawn from a wide range of disciplines and fields, and from across the Global South and North. An overarching theme of the volume is the manner in which the act of walking brings the body into presence as a material part of the research process, and the forms of attentiveness that this encourages. Another theme is the intimate connection between the act of walking and the act of writing. As familiar landscapes change under the weight of Anthropogenic environmental change, walking becomes an act of witnessing and a spur to action. Rather than being a singular activity, walking itself is understood as a socially, economically and politically constructed and contested act. This volume will serve as a source of inspiration to readers from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences who are interested in walking methodologies and in new and sustainable research practices.
Contents
Introduction: Walking as Embodied Research
Nick Shepherd and Christian Ernsten
Part I Multisensory Walking: 'Deep Mapping' and 'Sounding Places'
1 Layers of Perception in the Altai Landscape: A Visual Essay
Marjolijn Boterenbrood and Bas Pedroli
2 On Listening in Movement and Stillness: A Reflection through Sonic Vignettes
Karolina Doughty and Kristina Hansen
Part II Walking and the 'Arts of Noticing': 'Social Trackways' and 'Storied Landscapes'
3 Walking with Landscape Relations: Tracking and More-than-Human Sociality in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana
Pierre du Plessis
4 Walking as a Mnemonic Practice for Abundance in a Storied Landscape
Jan Bender Shetler
Part III Critical Walking Methodologies: Feminist and Queer Walking, Decolonial Walking
5 Notes on Feminist and Queer Critical Walking Methodologies in the Amsterdam City Centre
Chandra Frank
6 Escape from the White Cube: Walking as Decolonial Intervention
Nick Shepherd
Part IV Activist Walking and Walking for Academics
7 Activism on the move: Decolonial walking at Bremen's Bürgerpark and Cape Town's Two Rivers Urban Park
Steven Robins with Matthew Wingfield
8 Walking for Academics
Annamarie Mol
Part V The Art of Getting Lost: 'Homo Eclecticus' and the Wadden Sea Polder
9 Walking paths: 'Homo Eclecticus' about strolling
Jan Rothuizen
10 Salt, Fresh, Bittersweet: Walking a Wadden Sea Polder Against the Grain
Christian Ernsten, Marten Minkema, and Dirk-Jan Visser
Part VI Flanerie Reinterpreted: Walking and Drawing, Walk Like a Designer
11 Illustration on the Move: Embodied Practices of Walking and Drawing in the City
Tânia Alexandra Cardoso
12 Walk Like a Designer: Following the Haagse beek, Artist Krijn Giezen, and the Water System of the Hague
Henriette Waal and Clemens Driessen
Part VII Walking through Time: Coloniality and Multi-temporality on the Liesbeeck River and the Qhapaq Ñan
13 Walking with Peter Kolb: Transhistorical Journeys between Colonial Pasts and Presents
Christian Ernsten
14 On the Road: Musings on Walking and Writing
Cristóbal Gnecco
Part VIII Walking and Writing: Mount Sáos and the Rižana River
15 Ascending Sáos: A Chorographic Excursion in the midst of Incompressible Objects
Christopher Witmore
16 Foot Notes: Walking and Writing with the Rižana River
Nataša Rogelja Caf
Part IX Lockdown Walking: 'Becoming Attentive', the 'Infraordinary', and Memory and Mortality in the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg
17 Walking Forest in Suburbia: Becoming Attentive
Ike Kamphof
18 Lockdown Walks: Rhythms and Gestures of the Everyday
Jo Vergunst
19 In Passing: Walking in the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg
Ivan Vladislavic
