Walking Methods

This superb book explores the intersections between walking and ethnography, narrative and biographic methods, visual and participatory methods. The authors' enthusiasm is infectious and will surely inspire researchers to get walking! Jennifer Fleetwood, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Goldsmiths College, UK Walking Methods is an important contribution to the field of walking studies through a critical new method - the Walking Interview as a Biographical Method (WIBM). The book is comprehensive in scope, detailing the history and current iterations of 'methods on the move' across the arts and social sciences. WIBM is significant because it considers how people's biographies and life stories are shaped through perambulation that takes place through various durations and movements. Rich in examples, exercises, and (auto)biographical reflections this book makes a unique contribution to walking methods. Stephanie Springgay, Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, The University of Toronto, Canada A learned, revealing and absorbing route one guide to the sociology of walking and using the self as a sociological resource. Essential. Chris Rojek, Professor of Sociology, City University of London, UK This book is the first complex composition of theoretical and empirical approaches to the different aspects of 'research on the move'. Deeply inspiring for sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and researchers of cultural studies. The high quality pedagogue supports qualitative researchers, especially those working and representing biographical studies. Prof. Kaja Kazmierska, Director of the Institute of Sociology, and Chair of the ESA Research Network 3 on Biographical Perspectives on European Societies, University of Lodz, Poland