Regular Routes: Deep Mapping a Performative Counterpractice for the Daily Commute 1

Bissell, Laura; Overend, David

doi:10.3390/h4030476

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“…My walks could otherwise have been undertaken as a group exercise, which would have increased the eyes, ears, and hands available to sense and record. Shared experiences of modes of mobilities have taken place elsewhere (Bissell and Overend 2015;Doughty 2013). Walking also has a gendered historiography (Heddon et al 2009; Heddon and Turner 2010); Bassett (2004) raises the issue of whether his students felt differently about spaces according to their gender (though other experiences of urban space, dispositions and embodiment can also be relevant (see for example (Koskela 1997;Koskela and Pain 2000).…”

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A Year in the Life of a Public Park: Route-Making, Vigilance and Sampling Time Whilst Walking

Medford¹

2018

Humanities

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This paper offers a systematic, experimental, walking methodology to facilitate an ethnography of a major urban public park undertaken in the northeast of England in 2009-2010. Ethnography puts the body in-place, placing the senses within the streams of life to be observed through experience; walking is one means of so doing. Walking traditions have frequently been used to observe, record and analyse the minutiae of urban life, with recent qualitative methodologies seeking to use walking to underpin ethnographies. Walking must negotiate the specificity of place and time, with all walks taking place in a real-world of materially, spatially, complex, vital and rhythmic landscapes. My aim was to systematically capture some of these patterns. Ethnographies typically use sustained field-based immersion; yet, some research utilises sampling strategies to guide observational procedures. Combining these methodologies allowed me to develop a methodology with three objectives: to create a series of routes to be followed; routes which allowed me to both scan and closely observe distant, and proximate, surroundings; and to construct a diurnal, weekly "sampling" frame, which allowed me to "immerse" myself within the park's life through repeatedly walking these routes, building up a picture of everyday life, whilst (hopefully) capturing unscheduled events.

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A Year in the Life of a Public Park: Route-Making, Vigilance and Sampling Time Whilst Walking

Medford¹

2018

Humanities

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“…Consequently, examples of deep mapping appear across a broad range of arts' and humanities' disciplines that gain strength in their avoidance of tight definition (Modeen & Biggs, 2020). These include auto-ethnographic texts (Least Heat-Moon, 1999), journeying (Bissell & Overend, 2015;Sinclair, 2017), participatory archaeological digs (Lewis, 2015) and photo collage (Reddleman, 2015) amongst others (see also Reitz, this book). Though diverse in form, they are loosely unified by their effort to lure the mapper into this dance, prizing open discursive interactions with place.…”

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‘Getting Deep into Things’: Deep Mapping in a ‘Vacant’ Landscape

Humphris

Horlings

Biggs

2021

Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship

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Areas in cities typically denoted as ‘Vacant and Derelict Land’ are frequently presented in policy documents as absent of meaning and awaiting development. However, visits to many of these sites offer evidence of abundant citizen activity occurring outside of planning policy. Dog walkers, DIY skatepark builders, pigeon fanciers and reminiscing former factory workers, for example, can all be found inscribing their own narratives, in palimpsest like fashion, upon these landscapes. This spatio-temporally bound and layered mix of contested meanings extend beyond representational capacity offered by traditional cartographic methods as employed in policy decision-making. Such a failure to represent these ecologies of citizen-led practices often results in their erasure at the point of formal redevelopment. In this chapter, we explore how one alternative approach may respond to these challenges of representation through a case study project in Glasgow, Scotland. Deep mapping is an ethnographically informed, arts research practice, drawing Cifford Geertz’s notion of ‘thick description’ into a visual-performative realm and seeking to extend beyond the thin map by creating multifaceted and open-ended descriptions of place. As such, deep maps are not only investigations into place but of equal concern are the processes by which representations of place are generated. Implicit in this are questions about the role of the researcher as initiator, gatherer, archivist or artist and the intertwining between the place and the self. As a methodological approach that embraces multiplicity and favours the ‘politicized, passionate, and partisan’ over the totalizing objectivity of traditional maps, deep mapping offers a potential to give voice to marginalized, micro-narratives existing in tension with one another and within dominant meta-narratives but also triggers new questions over inclusivity. This methodologically focused chapter explores the ways in which an ethnographically informed, arts research practice may offer alternative insight into spaces of non-aligned narratives. The results from this investigation will offer new framings of spaces within the urban landscape conventionally represented as vacant or empty and generate perspectives on how art research methods may provide valuable investigative tools for decision-makers working in such contexts. The deep mapping work is available to view at http://www.govandeepmap.com.

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“…Although Vannini also encountered tourists, their experiences are marginal to his work, as his main aim is to theorise and understand regular ferry commuters and cultures. Indeed, ferries have largely been considered as commuter spaces, (Bissell, 2018;Bissell and Overend, 2015;Corbridge, 2009;Roseman, 2019;Wright, 2012); yet to do so misses their important contribution to tourist mobilities and their ability to provide a unique experience of water and place to tourists.…”

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Ferries as travelling landscapes: tourism and watery mobilities

McGrath

Harmer

Yarwood

2020

IJCTHR

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of small river ferries as an under-researched but novel mode of travel which enhances and brings new dimensions to tourist experiences of travelling landscapes. Design/methodology/approach The study used a mixed methods approach including participant observation, a survey and interviews with ferry users and staff at one river crossing in South West England. Findings The ferry attracts tourists as a different and practical mode of transport. The river crossing provides an experience of being on water, and the material structure of the ferry significantly shapes on-board interactions whilst providing new perspectives of place. Research limitations/implications This article draws on data collected for a study of ferry crossings conducted at three sites in Devon and Cornwall, England, using multiple methods. The material presented in this article focuses on one site and draws on four interviews, twelve reflection cards and observations. Social implications The research highlighted the extent to which the ferry is dependent on tourist use. At the same time, it reveals the extent to which the crossing enriches the tourist experience and celebrates a ferry’s contribution to local place-making. Originality/value The majority of research on ferry crossings focuses on commuter experiences, marine crossings and larger passenger vessels. This article makes an original contribution to literature on ferries, as it offers a perspective on tourist experiences of river ferry crossings, reveals how the ferry structure influences interrelations on-board and provides distinctive insights into place through a focus on movement across water.

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Regular Routes: Deep Mapping a Performative Counterpractice for the Daily Commute 1

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

A Year in the Life of a Public Park: Route-Making, Vigilance and Sampling Time Whilst Walking

A Year in the Life of a Public Park: Route-Making, Vigilance and Sampling Time Whilst Walking

‘Getting Deep into Things’: Deep Mapping in a ‘Vacant’ Landscape

Ferries as travelling landscapes: tourism and watery mobilities

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