Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World

Stephanie Springgay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She is a leader in research-creation methodologies, with a particular interest in theories of matter, movement and affect. With Sarah E. Truman she co-directs WalkingLab. Her research-creation projects are documented at: www.thepedagogicalimpulse.com, www.walkinglab.org, and www.artistsoupkitchen.com. Stephanie has published widely in academic journals and is the co-editor of M/othering a Bodied Curriculum: Emplacement, Desire, Affect; co-editor of Curriculum and the Cultural Body; and author of Body Knowledge and Curriculum: Pedagogies of Touch in Youth and Visual Culture. Sarah E. Truman is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on reading and writing speculative fiction in high schools. She also conducts ongoing research on walking methodologies and public pedagogy, and co-directs WalkingLab with Stephanie Springgay. Sarah’s research is informed by the feminist new materialisms with a particular interest in theories of affect, queer theory, and speculative pragmatism. Sarah is co-editor of Pedagogical Matters: New Materialism and Curriculum Studies; and author of Searching for Guan Yin. Her research is detailed at www.sarahetruman.com and www.walkinglab.org

• PART I Overview1. WalkingLab: Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World 2. Affective Transmaterialities and the Primacy of Movement PART II Aberrant Case Studies in Walking Research: 3. Stone Walks: Archives of Feeling and Queer Political Imaginaries 4. Edible Matters: Taste Tours and Food Forays on Foot5. Emergent Publics: Collective Movement and Minor "p" Politics with Youth 6. Towards a Rhythmic Account of Working Together and Taking Part 7. "Wood Land School:" Critical Negotiation of Land and Indigenous Realities PART III Speculative Probings8. Propositions for the Future of Walking Research in Three Parts

"The argument throughout is clearly and thoroughly informed by a strong theoretical and methodological framework. It highlights a wide range of ways in which one can practice walking as research and the many ways in which this can be recorded, captured, translated and activated through relational interventions and events. This book is a real asset, particularly if you have already engaged with these methods and want to open up and challenge your methodological horizon."-Magali Peyrefitte, Brunel University