Walking as Method: Toward Methodological Forthrightness and Comparability in Urban Geographical Research

Pierce, Joseph; Lawhon, Mary

doi:10.1080/00330124.2015.1059401

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“…While a typical approach to such work would start with assessing energy policy imperatives, urban planning documentation and an analysis of the formal grid, walking through the urban streets and encountering residents in their homes were the primary prompt for seeing the limitations of such work (see PIERCE and LAWHON, 2015). Certainly there are formal grids, plans and policies in these cities, but they lay alongside a multitude of unauthorized connections, off-grid generators and alternative technologies.…”

Section: Unlearning Infrastructure: Identifying Assumptions To Make Tmentioning

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Unlearning (Un)Located Ideas in the Provincialization of Urban Theory

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Abstract:Postcolonial urbanists have argued that theorizing is never unlocated, and requires socio-spatial contextualization to understand its utility and limits. Articulating the always partial process of 'learning to unlearn' theoretical assumptions and normativities, and considering what lies outside theory, can contribute to postcolonial urban theory. Sharing this process can help scholars 'learn to unlearn' from each other, develop modes of urban theorizing which acknowledge the situatedness of that process more robustly, and increase transparency about the process of theorization. Further, it shifts the focus from the 'who' and 'where' of theorization towards the assumptions and norms implicit in theory. After reflecting on our scholarly engagements, we point to situatedness, partiality, specificity, and scale as useful entry points for scholars seeking develop urban theory from the South. Unlearning [un]located ideas in the provincialization of urban theoryAbstract: Postcolonial urbanists have argued that theorizing is never unlocated, and requires socio-spatial contextualization to understand its utility and limits. Articulating the always partial process of 'learning to unlearn' theoretical assumptions and normativities, and considering what lies outside theory, can contribute to postcolonial urban theory. Sharing this process can help scholars 'learn to unlearn' from each other, develop modes of urban theorizing which acknowledge the situatedness of that process more robustly, and increase transparency about the process of theorization. Further, it shifts the focus from the 'who' and 'where' of theorization towards the assumptions and norms implicit in theory. After reflecting on our scholarly engagements, we point to situatedness, partiality, specificity, and scale as useful entry points for scholars seeking develop urban theory from the South.

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Section: Unlearning Infrastructure: Identifying Assumptions To Make Tmentioning

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Unlearning (Un)Located Ideas in the Provincialization of Urban Theory

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“…As Pierce and Lawhon (2015) argue, however, the value of walking methods is 'to shape questions rather than support specific conclusions, requiring the researcher to further interrogate impressions generated from walking.' (p. 660) And we have a number of questions arising from these walks.…”

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“…was not the open-ended curiosity-driven stroll of the flaneur (Benjamin 1940/1999), nor the psychogeography of the Situationists. Rather, we follow Pierce and Lawhon (2015) in taking a more explicit approach to enhance the trustworthiness of the work, potentially enabling comparisons and replicability of our method.…”

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Walking the city

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Buchczyk²

2018

Learning Beyond the School

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“…In research, similar steps of curiosity, receptivity, and follow‐up apply. Walking is recognised as a method in urban geographical research (Pierce & Lawhon, ) and as a cherished activity in relation to emplacement (Carbaugh & Cerulli, ). Curiosity about place was piqued when the first author walked in the Calder valley, West Yorkshire, prior to the 2015 floods.…”

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Reconciling place attachment with catchment‐based flood risk management: What can we learn from film?

Bark

Sutherland²

2019

J Flood Risk Management

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A catchment‐based approach to flood risk management (FRM) is gaining prominence in the United Kingdom. It is undertaken with wider awareness of multiple stakeholders, as part of a catchment scale understanding, and, as with other approaches, can visually re‐shape place. Land cover and land management change at this scale also has the potential to reconfigure landscape values and place attachment. Researchers have used qualitative, quantitative, and mapping approaches to understand place attachment. Here we explore secondary data, specifically, we transcribe and code the stories of five Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire residents from the short film, Calder about the December 26, 2015 floods. We find place attachment, identity, and social capital are interconnected and feature strongly in the mitigation and prevention phase, post‐disaster. Our findings suggest better understanding of place attachment can support a more catchment scale approach to FRM policy and practice.

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Walking as Method: Toward Methodological Forthrightness and Comparability in Urban Geographical Research

Cited by 78 publications

References 43 publications

Unlearning (Un)Located Ideas in the Provincialization of Urban Theory

Unlearning (Un)Located Ideas in the Provincialization of Urban Theory

Walking the city

Reconciling place attachment with catchment‐based flood risk management: What can we learn from film?

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