Tourism &amp; Embodiment

Hall, Jenny

doi:10.1080/02614367.2019.1711147

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“…Some researchers using walking interviews seek a third space between theory and praxis or method (Moles, 2008), neither fully academic nor activist, but in a negotiated pathway (Hein et al, 2008). This enables observations of interactions, patterns of movement, co-constituted sites of memory (Hall, 2020), atmosphere and affect, and the liminal transfer points punctuating mobility Sheller & Urry, 2006). If landscape is a story pervading its inhabitants (Ingold, 1993), walking interviews help exploration of self and others.…”

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“…Whilst Lorimer and Lund's (2003) excellent work on performativity in Munro bagging explored the underpinning socio-cultural beliefs and practices at play, it was primarily concerned with 'a cultural biography of mountain quantification ' (p. 142) and tensions between walking as a processual, aesthetic tradition and as a self-conscious, list-oriented process. Our ethnographic research incorporates those considerations but seeks to uncover more personal, embodied touristic experiences (Hall, 2020;Palmer & Andrews, 2020) through novel means.…”

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Using hike-along ethnographies to explore women’s leisure experiences of Munro bagging

2020

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This methodological study analyses the merits of adopting an ambulatory 'hike-along' approach to explore the mobile experiences of women during serious leisure pursuits such as Munro-bagging -climbing Scotland's 3,000 feet high mountains. By walking with participants as they ascended their chosen routes, rather than relying on sedentary, post-hoc interviews, we were able to observe the transient, shifting natures of their pastime, the embodied relationships between self and landscape, previously overlooked moments of 'in-between-ness', liminalities between mobility and immobility, and the ways in which women live their experiences into being, intertwining their selfconcepts with emerging understandings of their environment. The 'nowness' of our methodology captured the inseparability of actor, (inter)action, self, movement, and temporospatial and sociocultural contexts. Moreover, the inherent mobility of our approach brought a congruence with the subject matter, participants, settings and phenomena of study, which helped to separate women's adventure identities from the androcentricity permeating the canonical literature on walking. We therefore recommend broader adoption of 'hike-alongs' within similar ethnographic studies of serious leisure.

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