Walking as Embodied Research

Christian Ernsten is Assistant Professor of 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 ResearchNick Shepherd and Christian ErnstenPart I Multisensory Walking: ‘Deep Mapping’ and ‘Sounding Places’1 Layers of Perception in the Altai Landscape: A Visual EssayMarjolijn Boterenbrood and Bas Pedroli2 On Listening in Movement and Stillness: A Reflection through Sonic VignettesKarolina Doughty and Kristina HansenPart 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, BotswanaPierre du Plessis4 Walking as a Mnemonic Practice for Abundance in a Storied LandscapeJan Bender ShetlerPart III Critical Walking Methodologies: Feminist and Queer Walking, Decolonial Walking5 Notes on Feminist and Queer Critical Walking Methodologies in the Amsterdam City CentreChandra Frank6 Escape from the White Cube: Walking as Decolonial InterventionNick ShepherdPart IV Activist Walking and Walking for Academics7 Activism on the move: Decolonial walking at Bremen’s Bürgerpark and Cape Town’s Two Rivers Urban ParkSteven Robins with Matthew Wingfield8 Walking for AcademicsAnnamarie MolPart V The Art of Getting Lost: ‘Homo Eclecticus’ and the Wadden Sea Polder9 Walking paths: ‘Homo Eclecticus’ about strollingJan Rothuizen10 Salt, Fresh, Bittersweet: Walking a Wadden Sea Polder Against the GrainChristian Ernsten, Marten Minkema, and Dirk-Jan VisserPart VI Flanerie Reinterpreted: Walking and Drawing, Walk Like a Designer11 Illustration on the Move: Embodied Practices of Walking and Drawing in the CityTânia Alexandra Cardoso12 Walk Like a Designer: Following the Haagse beek, Artist Krijn Giezen, and the Water System of the HagueHenriette Waal and Clemens DriessenPart 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 PresentsChristian Ernsten14 On the Road: Musings on Walking and WritingCristóbal GneccoPart VIII Walking and Writing: Mount Sáos and the Rižana River15 Ascending Sáos: A Chorographic Excursion in the midst of Incompressible ObjectsChristopher Witmore16 Foot Notes: Walking and Writing with the Rižana RiverNataša Rogelja CafPart IX Lockdown Walking: ‘Becoming Attentive’, the ‘Infraordinary’, and Memory and Mortality in the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg17 Walking Forest in Suburbia: Becoming AttentiveIke Kamphof18 Lockdown Walks: Rhythms and Gestures of the EverydayJo Vergunst19 In Passing: Walking in the Northern Suburbs of JohannesburgIvan Vladislavic