One by walking : transdisciplinary mobilities and methodologies / Edited by Camilla Brudin Borg, Hanna E. Åberg, Roger Norum, Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch, John Martin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aberg, Author Hanna E., editor.

Borg, Camilla Brudin, editor.

Martin, Author John, editor.

Norum, Author Roger, editor.

OEsterlund-Poetzsch, Author Suzanne, editor.

Series:

Environment and Society.

Environment and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walking.

Reflection (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

This bold interdisciplinary volume reveals how walking--simple, quotidian, and yet profound--shapes the ways we perceive, understand, and engage with the world. It shows how the act of moving through space on foot can become a powerful tool for insight, reflection, and transformative action.

"More than just a way to get from place to place, walking is a powerful method of sensing, reflecting, and engaging - with ourselves, with others, and with the environments we move through. Whether as a meditative act, a research tool, or a response to global crises, walking opens new routes to understanding and more mindful ways of living. This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary collection brings together voices from the social sciences, humanities, and the arts to explore walking as both method and metaphor. From mobility and sustainability to embodied experience and ecological connection, these essays uncover the rich, often overlooked dimensions of walking - how it links us to landscapes, histories, and communities, and how it helps shape our place in the world. Born out of the international research network One by Walking: Transdisciplinary Mobilities and Methodologies offers fresh, thought-provoking insights into walking as a creative, intellectual, and political practice. For scholars, educators, artists, and walkers of all kinds, this book is an invitation to step into deeper ways of thinking - one footfall at a time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: One by Walking, Won by Walking

Chapter 1: Whose Healing? Reflexive Walking and a More-than-Human Perspective on Moving-with-Nature

Wild Imaginaries

Walking as Method

Healing Walks

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Placing Walking: Notes and Reflections from and About Kinetic Lifescapes

A Stop in the Walk to Think: Kinetic Place-Making and Mobility Figures

Coda and Closure

Chapter 3: Sentient Walking and the Good Life

Walking in Recent History

The Force of Nature

Fighting the Elements

Absorbing Through Walking

Chapter 4: Oceanic Mobilities: Walking-as-Method in Aquatic Environments

Walking into the Sea

Immersing the "Walk"

Walking 1: Hardangerfjorden, Rosendal, Norway

Walking 2: Skärgårdshavet, Korpoström, Finland

Walking 3: Gudrúnarlaug, Dalabyggð, Iceland

Back to the Surface

Chapter 5: Walking with Sensitivity

Invitation to Stay Proximate

Script for the Experiment

Script for the "Walking with Sensitivity" Experiment

Step 1: Instructions

Step 2: Walking with

Step 3: Processing through Writing

Step 4: Sharing

Wondering with Other-than-Human Companions

Chapter 6: Possibilities in Motion: Prosthetic Maps and Micro-Walks for Tectonic Encounters

Everything Is Moving

Prosthetic Maps for Geologic Encounters

Micro-Walks for Traversing Timescales

Toward Future Possibilities

Chapter 7: "My Place in Nature": Significant Places in Nature and a Good Life

Friluftsliv, Phenomenology, and Eco-Philosophy

My Place in Nature

The Landscapes of Childhood

What Makes a Place in Nature Meaningful to Us?

Identity

Belonging and Resonance

Embodied Experiences

Social Experiences.

My Place in Nature in the Face of Today's Challenges

Chapter 8: Walking Is Also Space: Walking Beyond Distance

Introduction

Walking Score for "Walking Is Also Space"

Instructions for Observers

Instructions for Walkers

Instructions for the Mapper: The Bird's-Eye View

The Walk: Observers, Walkers, and the Mapper Come Together

Share Session: Storying Space

Chapter 9: Walking Back Waste: Rethinking Transects to Challenge Human Nature in Nature

Encountering Waste at World's End

Transected Reflections: Behinds Leaving No Waste Behind

Chapter 10: Folkloric Walking Methods for Environmental Entanglement

Experiential Walking for Environmental Entanglement

Årsgång

Undertaking a Year Walk

Entanglement as Enchantment

Conclusion: Walking Traditions as Method

Chapter 11: And That Has Made All the Difference: Two Marches from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

Studying Political Marches: Methodological Considerations

July 2023: Marching as a Reenactment of Exodus

November 2023: Marching as a Funeral Procession

Comparing Practices and Walking Genealogies

And That Has Made All the Difference

Chapter 12: Walking Outside the Box: A Visual and Sensory Landscape Journey to Capture Perceptual Values

Holistic and Sensory Approaches to Landscape

A Call to Return to Sensoria

Methodological Summary

Embodiment 1: Moving through the Landscape

Embodiment 2: Creating Mini-Landscapes

Embodiment 3: Inscribing, Laying Down, and Uttering the Cocreation

Reflections

Rawness and Extraction

Miniaturization and Containment

Breathing and Making

Rhythmic and Performative

Messy and Soulful

Ethics and Practice

Chapter 13: Natural Training: Exploring Historical Ideas and Potential Futures of Sustainable Running

The Context of Running.

Fragments of Natural Training

The Path Ahead

Chapter 14: Telematic Soundwalking: Toward the Sonorous Step

Walking and Voicing as Listening

Listening to the Atmosphere

A Methodology for Opening Up

A Certain Geography: Bethnal Green

A Certain Geography: Ancient Messene

Chapter 15: Walking (and Paddling and Flying) with Heritage: Archaeologists' Daughters' Mobilities Across Northern Landscapes Captured on Disposable Cameras

Chapter 16: Walking Interrupted

Modern Pilgrimages in Northern Spain

Storytelling on the Camino del Norte

Distance and Pace

Interruption: Change of Method

Reading in a Planetary Way

Entering Dragonstone

The Darkness in the Depths of the Cave

Chapter 17: Walking for Treasures: Scavenger Apps, Attention Management, and the Creation of Heritage Topographies

Scavenging

App Technology as "Spatial Regimes"

Attention Management and Movement

Scavenging as Heritagization

Heritage Topographies

Chapter 18: More-than-Human Tracks: Walking on the Rendena Cattle Summer Pasture Trails in the Italian Alps

Geohistory, Tracking, Lines

Linking Infrastructures, Values, and Movement Heritage

Skiscapes, Flight Ways, and Walking Trajectories

Fence In, Fence Off

Walking, Retracing, Entangling

The Herd and the Malga

Interviews and Other Sources

Chapter 19: Constructing the Path: A Qualitative Exploration on Foot

Walking as a Method

Reading the Landscape of Mullvalds Strandskog

Wandering Mullvalds Strandskog in 2018

Walking the Path of Mullvalds Strandskog in 2024

Chapter 20: Powered by Nature's Call: Fecal Footprints and Biopolitics in a Nordic Tourist Landscape

Waste Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: Defecation and Mitigation via Intervention in Lofotodden National Park.

Wasted Reflections: Walking and the Biopolitics of Managing the Tourist Body

Control

Contradictions in "Leave No Trace"

Subjectification

Wasting Wilderness: Concluding Thoughts Toward an Affirmative Biopolitics

Chapter 21: Esoteric Limping: A Speculation on Supernatural Walking

Emperor Yu's Walking Step

The Swaying Body and Ritual

Emperor Yu, the Swaying Step Yubu 禹步, and Mythology

Great Yu in Support of Nonnormative Walking/Thinking

Esoteric Limping as Coexisting

Esoteric Limping as Contemporary Resistance

Chapter 22: The Pedagogical Praxes of Walking

The Broader Context

Walking as Public Pedagogy

Walking as a Pedagogy of Affect

Walking as the Learning of an Environmental Connection

Walking as a Convivial Pedagogy

Walking in Formal Pedagogic Structures

Conclusions

Index

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-35199-3

979-82-16-35197-9

979-82-16-35198-6

OCLC:

1573148679