Pedestrian practices

Rose, Morag

doi:10.7765/9781526152732.00021

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“…Since then, walking has been increasingly engaged with to explore politics, security, (post)colonialism, and militarism (Mason, 2020; Murphy, 2011; Paasche & Sidaway, 2021; Riding, 2020; Sidaway, 2009) and this includes attention to the infrastructures that accompany the walk. The politics of walking is also its ability to critically explore everyday spaces, how it is experienced differently because of class, gender, race, ethnicity, dis(ability) mobility, and its use as a narrative tool to understand issues of place, identity, and belonging (Middleton, 2010; O'Neill & Hubbard, 2010; Rose, 2020; Stanley, 2020). As I argue elsewhere (see Mason, 2021), the Eurocentricism of explorations of walking frequently ignore the situated cultural politics of walking and the connections between walking, gender, race, and colonialism.…”

Section: The ‘Infrastructure Turn’ Colonial Temporalities and Intimacymentioning

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The geographies of colonial infrastructures: Mobility, im/materiality, and politics on walking trails in the Middle East

Mason

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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The past 20 years have seen an expansion of walking trails across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including the Abraham Path, Palestine Heritage Trail, Jordan Trail, Israel National Trail, Lebanon Mountain Trail, and Sinai Trail. Many of those who walk these trails do so primarily for leisure, yet to relegate these trails to being merely cultural or leisure sites is to miss the less visible but equally important entanglements of space, mobility, and colonialism. The growth of these trails coincides with a context of (post)colonial and settler‐colonial mobility restrictions and the associated material and imagined infrastructures that control that movement. By attending to the im/material and state/embodied tensions of walking trails, this paper demonstrates how an innocuous‐looking site can enrich understanding of infrastructures and work exploring the mobilities and temporalities of colonialism. To understand the relationships between infrastructure and colonialism through walking trails, I employ a mixed‐method approach combining participant observation, interviews, and discourse analysis of official material pertaining to trails. Such an approach enables the productive tension between official narratives and experiences to emerge. In doing so, this paper makes three arguments surrounding the geographies of colonial infrastructures. First, how nationalism is embedded in the mobilities of trails. Second, how exploring the intimacies of infrastructure can highlight ongoing connections of capitalism and colonialism. Third, how infrastructure might be refused and imagined otherwise. In these mobilities, intimacies, and refusals an expanded geography of colonial infrastructure emerges that makes two broader contributions to geographical scholarship. First, the need to centre attention on the MENA region beyond dominant foci that orientate more readily around state or geo/political practices. Second, how a focus on walking trails centres a site in which the discursive and representative is in constant relationship and tension with the experiential and embodied.

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Section: The ‘Infrastructure Turn’ Colonial Temporalities and Intimacymentioning

confidence: 99%

The geographies of colonial infrastructures: Mobility, im/materiality, and politics on walking trails in the Middle East

Mason

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…This was supplemented with 30 in-depth interviews with a diverse mix of people of varying socio-economic backgrounds, genders, ethnicities and ages who lived along the transect. These interviews focused on activities of making, mending, extending and lending conducted in the home and incorporated creative methodologies, including object interviews as discussed above and (on some occasions) go-alongs in the form of accompanied shopping trips or taking part in clothes swaps and other activities (see also Rose, 2020;Cook, 2020). Such interviews would often include me taking photographs to capture different objects and practices I observed and participants discussed.…”

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The Materiality of Nothing

Holmes¹

2023

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The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have with them. Drawing on over 15 years of original, empirical research, it builds on growing research on the everyday, and unites the established field of material culture and materiality with emerging sociological studies exploring notions of nothing and the unmarked. The chapters cover topics such as lost prop erty, museum curation, plastic microfibres, thrift, music and even hair, illumi nating how invisible and intangible materials conjure memories, meanings and identities, inextricably binding us to other people, places and things. In turn, the book also engages with issues of sustainability and consumption, raising questions regarding society's increasing need for material accumula tion and posing some alternatives.

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“…It is both a method of discussing with research participants (Macpherson, 2008) and a way of measuring “performative engagements with the city” (Middleton, 2011, p. 90). For psychogeographers such as Iain Sinclair (2003; also see Bonnett, 2009; Richardson, 2015; Self, 2007; Solnit, 2001), urban walking is a way of experiencing cities in ways that claim space and trace changes in everyday mundane and “marvellous” (Rose, 2020) ways. Sidaway (2009) and Wylie (2005) explore narrations of self on the South West Coastal Path as phenomenological, auto‐ethnographic experiments.…”

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Public access, private land, and spatial politics: The geographical importance of the right of way in Coventry, England

Thorogood

Hastie

Hill-Butler

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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The passage of the UK's 2000 Countryside and Rights of Way Act (CRoW Act) is celebrated for opening huge tracts of private land for public use. The CRoW Act codified a New Labour manifesto promise: to introduce the "right to roam." It made 2 million acres of private mountains, moorland, heathland, and downs accessible to the public for walking and picnicking.The media focus on the right to roam left other parts of the CRoW Act neglected. Sections 53-56 of the Act discussed specific spatial rights that allow the public to travel through private lands: rights of way. They stipulated that any English or Welsh right of way -a public easement over private land allowing a user to pass and repass along a specific route -that was not registered on a County Council or Unitary Authority's (also known as Highway Authority) "Definitive Map and Statement" by a specific deadline would be "extinguished" or "stopped up.

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Pedestrian practices

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The geographies of colonial infrastructures: Mobility, im/materiality, and politics on walking trails in the Middle East

The geographies of colonial infrastructures: Mobility, im/materiality, and politics on walking trails in the Middle East

The Materiality of Nothing

Public access, private land, and spatial politics: The geographical importance of the right of way in Coventry, England

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