What is so good about walking interviews? Expanding the geo-indexical virtues of making meaning on the move
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12733503 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrés Di Masso (0000-0003-1120-3439, Universitat de Barcelona), Valeria Santoro Lamelas (0000-0003-2728-7032, Universitat de Barcelona, corresponding author), Pep Vivas I Elias (0000-0003-1099-0784, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Cristina Pradillo‐caimari (0000-0001-6475-5654, Valparaiso University), Laia Aleu-Barnadas (0000-0002-6883-8956, Universitat de Barcelona), Héctor Berroeta (0000-0002-5742-8193, Valparaiso University), Raúl Solano-Molina (0000-0002-5670-3181, Universitat de Barcelona) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Research in Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-0887 • E-ISSN: 1478-0895 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14780887.2025.2459704 |
| OpenAlex | W4407419264 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 40 |
Mobile methods allow unveiling or better grasping often “hidden” aspects of social processes and subjective dimensions of the human experience of place. Specifically, they demand nuanced attention to the geosemiotic, assembled, and intersubjective nature of the units at play when researching social and subjective worlds on the move. Based on the existing literature and empirical work conducted in different contexts by the co-authors of this article, we aim to provide new insights on the situated “kinetics” of meaning construction with three main contributions to qualitative place research in psychology. First, we briefly summarize the methodological strengths of “walking interviews” according to existing literature. Second, we advocate an interpretive approach to meaning-making in WI grounded on geo-indexicality and place-assemblage as their main onto-epistemological lenses. Finally, we provide a conceptual reorganization and integration of the methodological strengths of walking interviews according to five overarching geo-indexical dimensions: eductive, epistemic, ethical-political, performative, and metonymic
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Indexicality · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Meaning-making · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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Walking Methods
“Placing” Interviews
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Walking, Talking, Imagining
More Than Words
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Sociospatial ties and postdisaster reconstruction
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Talking whilst walking
The spatial transcript
Living with plants and the exploration of botanical encounter within human geographic research practice
Grounding Citizenship
Locating Impropriety
Living There, Leaving There
Integration and urban citizenship
The relational ethics of conflict and identity
Displacing place-identity
The walking interview
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Street Phenomenology
Mobile Methods and the Empirical
Emplacing the Research Encounter
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |