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.
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