Walking as Embodied Worldmaking: Bodies, Borders, Knowledgescapes situates walking not as exercise or metaphor but as a politically and materially charged practice — one that traverses bodies, landscapes, and the borders between ways of knowing.
About This Book
Walking is rarely neutral. This collection, edited by Lea Maria Spahn, assembles social scientists and artists to examine what walking actually does — how it enacts and unsettles geopolitical territories, how it mediates relationships between bodies and the environments they move through, and how it carries material-semiotic weight that conventional academic disciplines have struggled to fully account for. Drawing on phenomenological, artistic, and methodological approaches, the contributions resist any single framing of walking, instead building a multifaceted picture of embodied movement as a form of knowledge production. Essential reading for spatial researchers, human geographers, and practitioners working at the intersection of place, body, and culture.
Key Features
- 216 pages of written and visual contributions spanning social science and artistic practice
- Edited by Lea Maria Spahn
- Published by Set Margins, ISBN: 9789083499338
What You'll Discover
- How walking functions as a relational practice embedded in specific cultural and geographic landscapes, rather than a universal or abstract act
- The interplay between geopolitical borders and bodily movement — how territory is experienced, contested, and negotiated through walking
- Phenomenological and artistic methods for researching embodied experience, with contributions that blur the line between scholarship and creative practice
- The concept of material-semiotic performativity as it applies to movement through space — walking as a producer of meaning, not merely a subject of it
About the Author
Lea Maria Spahn is the editor of this volume. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 216
- Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789083499338
- Publisher: Set Margins
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Spatial researchers, human geographers, artists working with place and movement, and scholars in cultural studies, phenomenology, or landscape theory.