ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the intercorporeal spaces that emerge within the guide-walker relationship. It explores how these experiences are significant for participants in the guiding relationship and for attempts to understand the relations between embodiment, touch and ethics. The chapter elaborates from qualitative research material generated while acting as a sighted guide with specialist visually impaired walking groups who visit the British countryside. It reflects on who needs who in such worthy volunteer' situations and what exactly is being given' by the bodies of volunteer and visually impaired walker. The chapter demonstrates that the synchronous movements of walker and guide open up spaces of the body as a coupled entity' and opens a potential for a coupled, habitual ethical sensibility' to sense for two and move as one. This is an intercorporeal ethical sensibility distinct from the more standard social scientific notion of ethics as that which requires cognitive reflection.
