Walking Through Social Research (Routledge Advances in Research Methods, 22, Band 22) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138674044 ISBN 13: 9781138674042

Verlag: Routledge, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

As an ethnographic method walking has a long history, but it has only recently begun to attract focused attention. By walking alongside participants, researchers have been able to observe, experience, and make sense of a broad range of everyday practices. At the same time, the idea of talking and walking with participants has enabled research to be informed by the landscapes in which it takes place. By sharing conversations in place, and at the participants’ pace, sociologists are beginning to develop both a feel for, and a theoretical understanding of, the transient, embodied and multisensual aspects of walking. The result, as this collection demonstrates, is an understanding of the social world evermore congruent with people’s lived experiences of it.

This interdisciplinary collection comprises a unique journey through a variety of walking methodologies. The collection highlights a range of possibilities for enfolding sound, smell, emotion, movement and memory into our accounts, illustrating the sensuousness, skill, pitfalls and rewards of walking as a research practice. Each chapter draws on original empirical research to present ways of walking and to discuss the conceptual, practical and technical issues that walking entails. Alongside feet on the ground, the devices and technologies that make up hybrid research mobilities are brought to attention. The collection is bookended by two short pedestrian essays that take the reader on illustrative urban walks, suggesting routes through the city, as well as ways in which the reader might make their own path through walking methods.

An innovative title, Walking Through Social Research will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics who are interested in Sociology, Geography, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies and Qualitative Research Methods.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte Bates is a Sociologist at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

Alex Rhys-Taylor

is a Sociologist at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138674044
• ISBN 13: 9781138674042
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 202
• Herausgeber: Bates Charlotte, Rhys-Taylor Alex
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