ABSTRACT
The chapter proposes an interpretative analysis of four sensobiographic walks from two projects and shows how these walks generate new conversations and possible transformations at a micro, meso, and macro level. Risking the new is the mandate of (post)qualitative research, which refuses to take for granted the nature of ‘qualitative data’ and tries to avoid master stories. The theoretical framework of this proposal is based on recent constructs of biographical narratives as embodied and embedded pieces of conversation, where identity, space, and time are narratively constructed, de-constructed, and re-constructed, in company with others. The physical environment is part of this process, shaping hegemonic and institutionalized stories. The material and symbolic features of walking-with, remembering, enacting a world, and trying to coordinate with others the meanings of what is said, done, indicated, or jointly perceived can be seen as powerful processes of informal learning. Systemic theories of interaction, enaction, and embodiment highlight the imbrication of three levels of discourse: micro, meso, and macro. The differences among walkers, including the researchers, trigger a need for explication and questions that encourage the naming or highlighting of parts of the world, and/or new understandings that can start a process of cultural contact, intergenerational dialogue, critical participation, and ongoing inquiry.
