Walking Methods: Research on the Move

Table of Contents
List of figures
Introduction
	Overview of the field: Why this book and why now?
	Biographical Research: Walking – thinking, experiencing and imagining
	The Walking Interview as a Biographical Method (WIBM)
	References
Part I Theorising/observing/thinking
	Chapter 1 Methods on the move: Moving methods
		Introduction
		Walking
		Methods on the move: The Walking Interview as a Biographical Method (WIBM)
		Senses, emotions, and communicating
		Mobilities
		Arts and walking
		New mobile technologies and the future
		Philosophy, literature, and walking
		The psycho-spatial, time, and walking
		Biographical research ‘on the move’: ‘Moving’ research
		References
	Chapter 2 Theorising walking in the sociological imagination: Walking in context
		Introduction
		Walking and the sociological imagination
		Nineteenth century walking and ‘social exploring’
		Chicago School of sociology
		Mass Observation
		Baudelaire, Benjamin, and the flâneur
		Social documentary photography
		Situationism
		Conclusion: Theorising walking in the sociological imagination
		References
	Chapter 3 Walking, art-making, and biographical research
		Walking, the city, and urban space: Mobilities
		Walking as an embodied, sensory, and phenomenological practice in social research
		Walking as a relational, imaginative, biographical method, and an aesthetic practice
		Theorising the WIBM: Walter Benjamin – Walker, collector, storyteller
		WIBM: Walking with Donie: Theorising/observing/thinking
		Note
		References
	Exercise One: Walking and theorising: Observing/thinking
Part II Experiencing
	Chapter 4 Migration, memory, and place: Connecting with memory and place in urban landscapes
		Doing biographical research
		Biographical methods and migration
		Doing and experiencing biographical research differently: Walking with Robert Miller across memory, time, and place
		Walking in Belfast with Robert Miller
		Home and garden
		The Botanic Gardens
		University life
		Sectarian neighbourhoods and ‘TINKS’
		Personal borders and belonging
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5 Walking as re-formative and transgressive: Health, pilgrimage, trespass, marching
		History of walking
		Motivation
		Re-formation – Health and pilgrimage
		Health
		Pilgrimage
		Transgression – Trespass and marching
		Trespass
		Marching
		Escape and identity formation
		Re-formation, transgression, and escape and identity formation
		Note
		References
	Chapter 6 Walking in the Downtown Eastside: Experiencing the WIBM as participatory, visual, and ethnographic
		Context: Borders – Physical, material, and relational
		Walking biographies of people and place
		Participatory action research practice and process
		Arts-based methods – Mapping, walking, sensing, and visualising
		Step-by-step, community, resistance, and recognition
		Walking with Amanda
		Walking with Steve
		Walking towards a sense of community and mattering
		Notes
		References
	Exercise Two: Walking, sensing, experiencing
		Note
Part III Imagination
	Chapter 7 Walking, sex work, and community: Towards a radical democratic and imaginative space for addressing sexual and social inequalities
		A sociological imagination
		Walking with Nick Mai in Soho
		Creativity, biography, and imagination
		Walking with Faye and Open Clasp
		Biography, memory, and meaning
		Walking with Rosie Campbell and Shelly Stoops in Liverpool
		Walking with Kerry Porth in Vancouver: Biography and cartography
		Biographical imagination, walking, and memory
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8 The phenomenology of walking in a garden
		Introduction
		Garden and the city
		Nature writing and walking
		The garden path and bench
		Garden, walking, and sentencing
		Garden – Geometries and secrets
		Garden, identity, and space
		Garden, the body, and art
		Garden, auto/biography, and time
		The garden and the Walking Interview as a Biographical Method
		Walking in a garden
		References
	Chapter 9 Walking artists: Critical dialogues and imaginaries
		Walking as art practice
		Walking as a practice, method, experience, and a political force in society
		Walking as place-making and embodied learning
		Storytelling and art-making
		A walk with Clare Qualmann: Walking as imaginative, embodied, relational, and biographical
		A walk with Dee Heddon in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow
		Walking as political and relational
		Walking as art practice and the WIBM
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 10 Auto/biographical encounters in time and space: Roots and routes
		Walking and autobiography
		Walking in Consett – Maggie O’Neill
		Shopping, conviviality, and the park
		Protest and memorial walking
		Walking in a nearby cemetery (2016–17) – Brian Roberts
		Cemeteries, time, memory
		A return to the village (2010)
		Walking as a child in the village in the 1950s
		A developing childhood in Scrooby
		Auto/biography: Roots and routes
		References
	Exercise Three: Walking and imagining: Time/memory/making
Conclusion: The future of the Walking Interview as a Biographical Method
	Dimensions of the Walking Interview as a Biographical Method
	Biographical and ethnographic conceptions
	Walking and biographical research
	Time/Space/Place
	Memory
	Composition
	Theorising, experiencing and imagining in biographical research
	References
Exercise Four: WIBM exercise: Observing, experiencing, imagining
The Walking Interview as a Biographical Method
	Principles and practice: A framework
	Theoretical/epistemological underpinnings
	Notes
Index