ABSTRACT
This chapter develops an understanding of the integral nature of travel mobilities and encounters and social networks. It focuses on an investigation of the relationship between the competencies and practices of individual's path-making, the processes involved in path-making and negotiating encounters and the structures and geographies of encounters in the context of walking. Layering of narratives using textual, visual, frequency and geographical datasets over a specific spatial area develops the understanding of the relationship between individuals' practices and structural process. The chapter provides details about the analysis of the qualitative dataset from the walking interviews to reveal the strategies, competencies and practices of pathmaking and encounters integral to walking. The structures of encounterability change as people go outside and these temporal and spatial patterns of presence and absence are part of the building blocks of social networks. The organisation of time and space has different contours for different social groups and these require explicit consideration.
