Walking Through Social Research

As an ethnographic method walking has a long history, but it has only recently

begun to attract focused attention. This interdisciplinary collection provides a guided route through a variety of sensory walks, exploring the possibilities for conducting research on the move along the way. It highlights a range of possibilities for enfolding sound, smell,

emotion, movement, and memory into geographical and sociological accounts,

illustrating the sensuousness and the skill of walking as research practice.

Walking Through Social Research is a poignant collection of essays that explores walking as immersion in city life. This rich and compelling collection engages with issues of violence, speculation and vulnerability, showing us how mis-steps, walk-alongs, air walks and walking together reach and reveal urban complexities.Suzanne Hall, Director of the Cities Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Bates and Rhys-Taylor offer an exciting collection of essays that take us on a variety of walks across a diversity of cities. This book is a timely contribution to the field of urban studies as it offers multiple reasons of why the practice of walking is essential to researching, knowing and reflecting on urban life. The essays are a pure joy to read as they offer a fine balance between theory, methods and empirical studies. An inspiring and fascinating read.Monica Degen, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Sociology, Brunel University London, UK

Autorentext

Charlotte Bates is a Sociologist at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

Alex Rhys-Taylor is a Sociologist at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Inhalt

Finding Our Feet by Charlotte Bates and Alex Rhys-Taylor

Railway Lands by Emma Jackson

1 Marchers and Steppers: Memory, City Life and Walking by Les Back

2 Seeing the Need: Urban Outreach as Sensory Walking by Tom Hall and Robin Smith

3 Desire Lines: Walking in Woolwich by Charlotte Bates

4 Keep Walking: Notes on How to Research Urban Pasts and Futures by Helena Holgersson

5 Walking Together: Understanding Young People's Experiences of Living in Neighbourhoods in Transition by Andrew Clark

1. 6 Westfield Stratford City: A Walk Through Millennial Urbanism by Alex Rhys-Taylor

2. 7 Walking, Falling, Telling: The Anecdote and the Mis-step as a 'Research Event' by Mike Michael 8 Air Walk: Monitoring Pollution and Experimenting with Speculative Forms of Participation by Jennifer Gabrys

   1. 9 Listening Walks: A Method of Multiplicity by Michael Gallagher and Jonathan Prior
      10 Wild Walking: A Twofold Critique of the Walk-Along Method by Phillip Vannini and April Vannini

Walking W8 in Manolos by Caroline Knowles