ABSTRACT
In late 2012, in an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Australia, called Brunswick, or more aectionately, ‘the Republic of Brunswick’, a woman walked home along the main street of Sydney Road. She did not make it home safely; she did not make it home. One week later, two days after her body was found in a roadside grave in the far north of Melbourne where suburbs end and small towns scatter, more than 30,000 people walked down that same road – Sydney Road, Brunswick – in a peace march in what was, in eect, a ceremonial act of public mourning. While there are infinite reasons as to why so many walked, some knowable, most unknowable, this chapter attends to a slightly dierent question. That is, rather than contemplating the reasons why each individual walked, or attempting to think collectively as to why so many might have walked, this chapter is concerned with thinking more carefully about how those that walked, walked, and how through the practice of a certain form of walking, those that walked, walked lawfully, together. In doing so, this chapter pays attention to a distinctive form of lawful walking conducted in a public ceremony of mourning, and asks how this walking relates to the place of law.
