ABSTRACT
The intention is to articulate, consolidate, and summaries the development of practices of thinking, observing, and theorising walking in biographical research. Patterns of sociation are represented in T. Ingold and J. Vergunst’s sociology and anthropology of walking: in the way that social relations can be mapped out along the ground, that walking can be profoundly ‘sociable’. The Walking Interview as a Biographical Method takes up the idea of mobilities research that social life is in movement, working with forms and practices of sociation, and that walking together opens a space for dialogue, for life stories to be told, shared, and heard. In sociology, urban studies, and cultural geography, the ‘turn to walking’ has, on the whole, focused upon the way that space and place is formed and shaped, and the way communities and networks are constructed. The relational aspect of walking is important to M. O’Neill in her collaborations with artists, performance artists, writers, poets, photographers, and participants.
