Walking as Critical Inquiry

Series Editor’s Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Walking as a Critical Art of Inquiry
1 Walking Through Study
2 Walking with Country
3 Walking Through Drawing
4 Contributions to This Volume
5 Concluding Thoughts
References
Common Worlding with Blasted Landscapes: Possibilities for Walking Research in Early Childhood Education
1 Walking-with the Common Worlds of Early Childhood
2 Putting Blasted Landscapes to Work
3 Pedagogical Experimentation
4 Conclusion
References
The Listening Body: Sound Walking, Wearable Technologies, and the Creative Potentials of a Vibrational Pedagogy
1 Introduction
2 The Art and Science of Listening
3 More-than-Human Senses and Sensors
4 Biosensing Practices
5 Becoming Listening Bodies
6 Discussion: Sound Walking as Vibrational Pedagogy
7 Conclusion: Toward a Vibratory Pedagogy
References
Out of the Blue: A Pedagogy of Longing
1 Walking with Blue
2 Affected by Blue
3 Staying in the Blue: Not Knowing in Artistic Research
4 Longing for Blue: A Pedagogy of Curiosity
References
Discovering Lostness: Wandering and Getting Lost as Research Methodology
1 Embodied Bipedal Knowledge
2 Gleaning the Benefits of Lostness
3 Wandering and Lostness as Research Methodology
4 Treading into the Unknown
5 Lostness and Place
6 Self, Lostness, and Place
7 Wandering Art/Ography as Creative Place Making
8 Final Thoughts
References
Anecdotal Edges: Propositions from Sketching the Walk as a Posthumanist Research Method
1 Introduction
1.1 Research with Place
2 Anecdotal Edges
2.1 Anecdotal Edges and Sketching
2.2 Anecdotal Edges with Walking
2.3 Wayfaring
3 Common Worlds
4 Relational Everyday Practices
5 Process Thinking
5.1 Creeping Language
6 Latour’s Propositions
7 Conclusion
References
Walking to Create an Environmental Arts Pedagogy of Music
1 Introduction
2 Grounding Literature
2.1 Walking
2.2 Soundwalks, Songlines, and Music Composition
3 The Symphonic Landscape: Four Autoethnographic Vignettes
3.1 Vignette 1: A Walk in the Forest
3.2 Vignette 2: New Surprises at the Creek
3.3 Vignette 3: A Musical Swing, a Dance for Sap, and Dirty Rhythms
3.4 Vignette 4: Planting Trees and Sticky Sap
4 Discourse on Music as an Environmental Arts Pedagogy
5 Conclusion
References
Entangled Subjectivities in Muslim Daughters’ Video Walks: Affective Narratives of Transitions from a Postcolonial Feminist Multisensory Ethnography
1 Trans-Emigra Research Context: Exploring the Construction of Girls’ Subjectivities and Parenting with Muslim Families
2 Setting to Music: The Entangled Subjectivities and Agencies of the Walking Narratives
3 Touching the City: Postcolonial Memories, Perceptions and Decisions
4 Affected by Posthumanist Ethnography: Place and Space as Multisensory Phenomena
5 Children Bodies’ Orientations Toward Objects in Public Racialized-Gendered Space
6 Conclusions
References
Walking lutruwita/Tasmania: Navigating Place Relationships Through Moving and Making
1 Walking Methodologies
1.1 In Relation/Positioning the Self
1.2 Why Walking Methodologies
2 Walking with the River
3 Un-settling Settler Place-Making
4 Listening to the River
5 Making Marks/Marking Time in Place
5.1 Listening to the Body with Place
6 Knotting Time
7 Making-with-Place
References
Walking in Suriashi as a Radical and Critical Art of Inquiry
1 Background
2 Artivism: Suriashi Walking with a Radical Potential
3 Choreography as Political March
4 Aesthetic Experience as Artivism
5 Method
5.1 Suriashi as Walking and as Experimental Pilgrimage
5.2 Participants
6 Example #1: Suriashi Intervention at Gothenburg Culture Festival
6.1 Gothenburg Culture Festival
6.2 Radical Walking for a Critique of Real Estate Speculations
6.3 Radical Walking for a Confirmation of Ephemeral Lineage
6.4 Walking Is Dancing
6.5 Suriashi Walking Begins
6.6 A Public Fountain as a Manifestation of What Is Not There
7 Example #2: Suriashi as Protest at Yuen Long Station, 2019
7.1 Be Water—A Constructed Daoist Concept
7.2 Cheung Walks at Yuen Long Station as a DIY Micro-artivism
8 Example #3: Suriashi with Master Students at University of Gothenburg
8.1 Performative Walking as New Methodology in Higher Education
9 Discussion
References
Walking and Cultivating a Critical Community of Practice
1 Introduction
2 Journey
References
Walking-With Covid: Posthuman Walking Propositions
1 Introduction
2 COVID-19
3 Posthuman Covid: Virocene Agency
4 Methodology
4.1 Walking-With Posthuman Covid and Process Philosophy
5 Walking-With Posthuman Covid: Engaging Speculative Propositions
6 Walking-With Posthuman Covid Proposition 1: Walk-With a Camera (Artist/Learners in China)
7 Walking-With Posthuman Covid Proposition 2: Draw in Place (Artist/Teacher in Australia)
8 Concluding Thoughts
References
The Wonders of Wandering Through Magical Comic Territories: Towards a Feminist-Queer-Crip Laughter
1 Introduction: Towards a Female Clown World that Goes Beyond Self and Species
2 Cunt Clown Show: A Brief Script of a Wonderful Fantasy Journey
3 Multidimensional discussion
4 Stories yet to Come
References
Walking/Writing, Sensing Side-By-Side: A Decolonial Inquiry
1 Introduction
2 Post-feminist, New Materialist c/a/r/tographic Influences on our Walking/Writing
3 Sensory Ethnography and Walking/Movement Arts-Based Methodologies
4 Sensing Side-By-Side: Sensing as Women
5 Sensing Side-By-Side: Deep Histories from Archives, Books, Feelings, and Fleeting Thoughts
6 Sensing Side-By-Side: Plants, Animals, Weather
7 Recreating Belonging and Connection to Country, to Nature, to Deep Histories, to Each Other
References
Scores for Walking-with: Exploring Difference and Space Through Collective Practice
1 Opening Exercise
2 Introduction
3 Moving-with Difference and not Knowing?
4 On Scores
5 Scores to Walk-with
5.1 Walk-Me-Through
5.2 Collective Slow-Dwelling
6 Closing
References