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.
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 Bremens Bürgerpark and Cape
Towns 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
Tānia 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 Ńan
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 Sįos and the Riana River
15 Ascending Sįos: A Chorographic Excursion in the midst of Incompressible
Objects
Christopher Witmore
16 Foot Notes: Walking and Writing with the Riana River
Nataa 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
Christian Ernsten is Assistant Professor of Heritage Studies at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
Nick Shepherd is Associate Professor of Sustainable Heritage Management at Aarhus University in Denmark and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
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