ABSTRACT
The author considers walking as a decolonial, queer, auto-ethnographic method by deploying Bruno Latour’s call for a terrestrial, flat, “down to earth” ecology rather than a planetary, spheric, disembodied ecology that conceives of the Earth as an object suspended in space. Drawing on a genealogy of walking practices in participatory art and activism, the author shows how Harmattan Theater has been deploying the ethics and aesthetics of walking to performatively decolonize and queer public space, suggesting that an ecology of urban life might also entail a radically dynamic approach to (re)mapping earthly spaces.
