Walking through social research

by Bates, Charlotte Rhys-Taylor, Alex

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Title Statements

Full title :Walking through social research / edited by Charlotte Bates and Alex Rhys-Taylor.

Summary

As an ethnographic method walking has a long history, but it has only recently begun to attract focused attention. By walking alongside participants, researchers have been able to observe, experience, and make sense of a broad range of everyday practices. At the same time, the idea of talking and walking with participants has enabled research to be informed by the landscapes in which it takes place. By sharing conversations in place, and at the participants’ pace, sociologists are beginning to develop both a feel for, and a theoretical understanding of, the transient, embodied and multisensual aspects of walking. The result, as this collection demonstrates, is an understanding of the social world evermore congruent with people’s lived experiences of it. This interdisciplinary collection comprises a unique journey through a variety of walking methodologies. The collection highlights a range of possibilities for enfolding sound, smell, emotion, movement and memory into our accounts, illustrating the sensuousness, skill, pitfalls and rewards of walking as a research practice. Each chapter draws on original empirical research to present ways of walking and to discuss the conceptual, practical and technical issues that walking entails. Alongside feet on the ground, the devices and technologies that make up hybrid research mobilities are brought to attention. The collection is bookended by two short pedestrian essays that take the reader on illustrative urban walks, suggesting routes through the city, as well as ways in which the reader might make their own path through walking methods. An innovative title, Walking Through Social Research will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics who are interested in Sociology, Geography, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies and Qualitative Research Methods. -- Provided by publisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 202 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138674042, 1138674044
oclc:on1023307310
LC Classification:HM511
Dewey Decimal:301.01

Finding Our Feet / Charlotte Bates and Alex Rhys-Taylor -- Railway Lands / Emma Jackson -- Marchers and Steppers: Memory, City Life and Walking / Les Back -- Seeing the Need: Urban Outreach as Sensory Walking / Tom Hall and Robin Smith -- Desire Lines: Walking in Woolwich / Charlotte Bates -- Keep Walking: Notes on How to Research Urban Pasts and Futures / Helena Holgersson -- Walking Together: Understanding Young People’s Experiences of Living in Neighbourhoods in Transition / Andrew Clark -- Westfield Stratford City: A Walk Through Millennial Urbanism / Alex Rhys-Taylor -- Walking, Falling, Telling: The Anecdote and the Mis-step as a ‘Research Event’ / Mike Michael -- Air Walk: Monitoring Pollution and Experimenting with Speculative Forms of Participation / Jennifer Gabrys -- Listening Walks: A Method of Multiplicity / Michael Gallagher and Jonathan Prior -- Wild Walking: A Twofold Critique of the Walk-Along Method / Phillip Vannini and April Vannini -- Walking W8 in Manolos / Caroline Knowles

Subjects

Cultural geography - Methodology Ethnologie etnologi Kulturstudier -- metodik Methode Sociologi -- metodik Sociologisk metod Sociology -- Methodology Sozialwissenschaften Walking -- Social aspects