ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that moving in and through the world – through physical locomotion or mnemonic travel – is an apt method for capturing the co-dimensionality of heritage as an issue of mobile relations between humans, memories, stories, sedimented matter and meanings, and ways of life. Using theoretical and methodological approaches from different fields, we think through the potentials of walking in heritage and memory studies and how it can offer up alternative pasts. Contrasting the walking practices of ‘expert’ heritage (e.g. by tour guides, UNESCO missions, etc.) with our walks with participants, other uses of and relationships with place and time become perceptible, complicating, subverting, or ignoring and flowing past official heritage. The chapter explores the methodological and practical challenges of walking as a method, and its potential for rethinking heritage ontologies.
