Walking as Embodied Research

Christian Ernsten is Assistant Professor in Heritage Studies at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Nick Shepherd is Associate Professor of Sustainable Heritage Management at Aarhus University in Denmark and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Introduction: Walking as Embodied Research

Nick Shepherd and Christian Ernsten

Part I Multisensory Walking: ‘Deep Mapping’ and ‘Sounding Places’

1 Layers of Perception in the Altai Landscape: A Visual Essay

Marjolijn Boterenbrood and Bas Pedroli

2 On Listening in Movement and Stillness: A Reflection through Sonic Vignettes

Karolina Doughty and Kristina Hansen

Part II Walking and the ‘Arts of Noticing’: ‘Social Trackways’ and ‘Storied Landscapes’

3 Walking with Landscape Relations: Tracking and More-than-Human Sociality in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana

Pierre du Plessis

4 Walking as a Mnemonic Practice for Abundance in a Storied Landscape

Jan Bender Shetler

Part III Critical Walking Methodologies: Feminist and Queer Walking, Decolonial Walking

5 Notes on Feminist and Queer Critical Walking Methodologies in the Amsterdam City Centre

Chandra Frank

6 Escape from the White Cube: Walking as Decolonial Intervention

Nick Shepherd

Part IV Activist Walking and Walking for Academics

7 Activism on the move: Decolonial walking at Bremen’s Bürgerpark and Cape Town’s Two Rivers Urban Park

Steven Robins with Matthew Wingfield

8 Walking for Academics

Annamarie Mol

Part V The Art of Getting Lost: ‘Homo Eclecticus’ and the Wadden Sea Polder

9 Walking paths: ‘Homo Eclecticus’ about strolling

Jan Rothuizen

10 Salt, Fresh, Bittersweet: Walking a Wadden Sea Polder Against the Grain

Christian Ernsten, Marten Minkema, and Dirk-Jan Visser

Part VI Flanerie Reinterpreted: Walking and Drawing, Walk Like a Designer

11 Illustration on the Move: Embodied Practices of Walking and Drawing in the City

Tânia Alexandra Cardoso

12 Walk Like a Designer: Following the Haagse beek, Artist Krijn Giezen, and the Water System of the Hague

Henriette Waal and Clemens Driessen

Part VII Walking through Time: Coloniality and Multi-temporality on the Liesbeeck River and the Qhapaq Ñan

13 Walking with Peter Kolb: Transhistorical Journeys between Colonial Pasts and Presents

Christian Ernsten

14 On the Road: Musings on Walking and Writing

Cristóbal Gnecco

Part VIII Walking and Writing: Mount Sáos and the Rižana River

15 Ascending Sáos: A Chorographic Excursion in the midst of Incompressible Objects

Christopher Witmore

16 Foot Notes: Walking and Writing with the Rižana River

Nataša Rogelja Caf

Part IX Lockdown Walking: ‘Becoming Attentive’, the ‘Infraordinary’, and Memory and Mortality in the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg

17 Walking Forest in Suburbia: Becoming Attentive

Ike Kamphof

18 Lockdown Walks: Rhythms and Gestures of the Everyday

Jo Vergunst

19 In Passing: Walking in the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg

Ivan Vladislavic