Here are some more details about our forthcoming workshop:
'Walking' Studies Today*
Network
Seminar and Taster
Claus
Moser Building CM0.012
Tuesday
May 26, 2015
9.45
– 16.30
The last 10 years or so have seen a growing interest in
walking in urban and cultural geography (Middleton 2009, 2010, 2011), literary
and cultural studies (Solnit 2000; Macfarlane 2013), oral history (High 2013) and
visual and performing arts (Mock 2009, Smith 2014, 2015). Some of the canonical
theories on walking - ubiquitous in urban studies - tend to represent this as a
liberating and/or subversive act (Debord 1959, Certeau 1980). More recent
interventions have problematised walking as a means of knowing the city (Thrift
2008) or as necessarily emancipatory (Urry 2007). It remains the case that
walking is seen as ‘the most “egalitarian” of mobility systems’ (Urry 2007,
88); given its broad availability to able-bodied people. It is also a
sustainable practice (Education and Inspection Act 2006), with perceived
health-promoting properties. Walking has been, and continues to be, a prompt to
creative and performative work (Self 2007, Sinclair e.g. 2003, 2004, Macfarlane
2013, Cade 2013-). This workshop will offer a sample of some of the work currently
being done in walking studies. It will close with a discussion of possible
future areas to explore in the field.
*Here, we use the term ‘walking’ to refer to a range of
practices which may or may not be bipedal.
Papers
and contributions from: Jennie Middleton (Oxon), Matt Parker (independent sound
artist), Sue Porter (Bristol), Phil Smith (Plymouth), Rosana Cade (independent
performance artist), Ben Anderson (Keele), Rajmil Fischman (Keele)
All are welcome to attend. However, places are limited,
so please register your interest with Ceri Morgan (c.m.morgan@keele.ac.uk) or
Andy Zieleniec (a.zieleniec@keele.ac.uk)
before Friday May 15, 2015.
We acknowledge the support of Keele University Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Strategy Fund
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