ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to unravel the act of walking as a specific way of practicing reflexivity. It begins with the investigation of the process of reconstruction of Mostar by walking the streets as the author was looking for academic epiphanies. The feminist call to question the researcher's positionality is also a way to envision and account for the fieldwork as a process and not as a presupposed object'. Ethnography and ethnographic fieldwork are essentially about encounters, the qualities and outcomes of which will have direct effects on the development of the research. Encountering me as an Italian woman, and one working on a PhD in Belfast about the reconstruction of Mostar, normally produced suspicious curiosity. Becoming embedded in its socio-political dynamics meant a rapid change of the way I was wandering around. Walking the streets of West Mostar, the author noticed the discrepancies between the names written in the pre-war maps and the current ones.
