The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking and Wellbeing

Heddon, Deirdre; Hind, Claire; O’Neil, Maggie; Qualmann, Clare; Rose, Morag; Wilson, Harry; Wright, Carole; Billinghurst, Helen; Bissett, Sarah; Broadbent, Ruth; Brydon, Lavinia; Collison, Claire; Cullinan, Fiona; Fisher, Laura; Ford, Patrick K.; Ghelani, Sheila; Grant, Jenson; Owens, Green and; Ludhra, Geeta; Meynell, Harriette; Nathan, Idit; Nightingale, Lydia; O'Brien, Audrey; Orley, Emily; Overall, S.; Puppio, Stefano; Rogers, Monique Sundree-Latchmi; Rowley, Liberty; Rudd, Genevieve; Scott, Ronnie; Haranya, S; Staff, Jenny; Stratford, Helen; Welch, Kathryn; Welton, Emma; Whitelaw, Stephanie; Wilson, Louise; Wortley, Jessica; Yiu, Nina

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“…Heddon et al's (2022) UKRI and AHRC funded Walking Publics/Walking Arts: walking, wellbeing and community during Covid 19 (www.walkcreate.org) explored the public's experience of walking during Covid as well as the walking practice of artists. A report and a walkbook of walking recipes by 30 artists curated by Heddon et al (2022) both share the findings of the research and offer creative recipes by artists to inspire and support people to walk.…”

Section: Walking Art and Walking Researchmentioning

confidence: 86%

Introduction to the Special Issue

O’Neill¹,

Edwards²,

Laoire³

et al. 2023

Irish Journal of Sociology

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This special issue advances and interrogates walking as a methodology and research method in the social sciences. Walking is something we do every day, as a lived experience, a source of knowledge, a means of dialogue and exchange with oneself, others, nature, the environment and as an aid to thinking, reflecting and memory. Social science is increasingly "on the move", underpinned by advances in digital methods, a focus on our mobile lives, and the growth of creative, sensory, arts-based multi-modal methods, used by sociologists, ethnographers, anthropologists, geographers, environmentalists, biographical researchers and arts based researchers.As an innovation in social research methods the turn to walking builds on and attaches to the previous "turns" in sociological research, such as the narrative, biographical, visual and sensory "turns" as well as the performative "turn". Walking also resonates with geographical traditions of embodied "field-work" and recognition of the social and spatial nature of knowledge production (Lorimer 2003;Dewsbury & Naylor 2002;Rose et al., 2022). There are important connections too, with walking, in the long history of social research that seeks to understand social inequalities, through, for example, the work of Engels, Mayhew and Orwell, the pioneering research by the Chicago School of Sociology with migrant and marginalised communities and gender politics in the writing of Virginia Woolf, the suffragette marches and gender based protest movements.As the papers in this special issue evidence, the act of walking engages all the senses, the importance of looking, hearing, feeling and we argue, the art of paying attention (Ingold this volume). Walking methodologies offer a powerful way of communicating about experiences and ways of knowing across cultural divides, time, and history. The walking body produces society and sociality is created in walking (

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Section: Walking Art and Walking Researchmentioning

confidence: 86%

Introduction to the Special Issue

O’Neill¹,

Edwards²,

Laoire³

et al. 2023

Irish Journal of Sociology

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“…Walking is the subject of this paper, but also contributed to the methods (for work on walking methods, see Badwan & Hall, 2020; Kowalewski & Bartłomiejski, 2020; O'Neill et al., 2020; Warren, 2017). Walking practices during the pandemic have also received notable attention, in particular how walking during this time unearthed everyday creative practices in communities (Heddon et al., 2022). Finding myself at home with a newborn during the first UK National lockdown in 2020, I started a walking group as a way to connect safely with other new mums.…”

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Walking‐with/worlding‐with in a global pandemic: A story of mothering in motion

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2024

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This paper addresses how walking‐with an infant makes mothering worlds legible. Employing the active verb ‘worlding’, it illustrates how walking‐with contributes to the emergent, embodied and relational nature of mothering as a story in motion and how we make sense of becoming a mother. The walking in this study takes place in and through (sub)urban landscapes, and how we negotiate our maternal bodies through these spaces, at a very particular moment in time (COVID‐19 lockdowns), is imbricated in our worldings. Walking‐with is used to not only explain the interembodiment of mother and child but also the wider milieu of ‘withs’ to demonstrate the corporeal and relational experience of walking. Walking‐with a baby, particularly with a postpartum body, is hard work, messy and unpredictable, yet that is not to say the analysis leads to a negative perspective. When walking‐with a baby is understood as ‘worlding‐with’ we can develop a more affirmative understanding of mothering. By using creative analytical practice a walking‐with story was developed drawing on data collected from walking mothers and autoethnography of my own walking‐with experiences. The story makes it possible to develop a legibility that captures the contradictory experiences of mothering in motion. Creative analytical practice highlights that storying, walking and mothering is never a complete.

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The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking and Wellbeing

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Introduction to the Special Issue

Walking‐with/worlding‐with in a global pandemic: A story of mothering in motion

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