ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses key questions of definition regarding walking as a ‘method’ – operating with an awareness action as embodied, cognitive, sensual, relational, visual, communicative dimensions and possibilities. It introduces the process of theorising methods ‘on the move’ by connecting the activity and conceptions of walking with art, philosophy, politics, and the psychosocial. The chapter argues that walking is an excellent method for entering into the biographical routes, mobilities, and experiences of others in a deeply engaged and ‘attuned’ way. The walking interview can be expanded to include a research interview before and/or after a ‘respondent’s’ lone walk, or the interviewer and respondent may repeat the actual walk that the individual made. The notion of ‘mobilities’ can remind that walking takes place and is experienced in time/space – in many varied contexts, and within the diverse constraints and expectations of when and where to walk.
