ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the practice of walking together as a distinct mode of participant observation. It first situates peripatetic fieldwork within the broader landscape of ethnographic methods, tracing its emergence and development in existing scholarship, while examining its intersections with other methods and related subfields, such as interviews and sensory anthropology. In dialogue with the findings from Chapters 1 and 2 – that is, with prevailing paradigms of walking and their effect on common conceptions of “normal” pedestrian experience – the chapter then outlines key areas where walking methodologies can be further developed: attending more critically to the researcher’s positionality, engaging with historical and political configurations of public space, analyzing uneven power dynamics embedded in the act of walking, and accounting for the affective, bodily dimensions of walking together.
