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Beyond the Flâneur

Urban Walking as Peripatetic Phenomenological Pedagogy

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ID13100717
AuthorsUlf Strohmayer (0000-0002-4348-1567, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume9
Issue1
Pages78-101
Publication date2023-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2373566x.2022.2154690
OpenAlexW4321018530
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited113

This essay analyses a key motif in geographical scholarship: the most basic form of mobility achieved by an abled-bodied person engaging in acts of walking. By embedding “walking” firmly within a phenomenological tradition, the essay places “being mobile” qua walking within a field of enquiry that conceptualises an embodied form of mobility as both enabling and limiting. Building furthermore from a growing body of literature that has differentiated between “walking” as an active form of engagement and a host of different geographically relevant modes of being, the paper adds a specifically epistemological set of considerations in an attempt critically to contribute to existing literatures and to interrogate the embodied practice of walking. Key in this endeavour is the contribution mobile modes of existence make to the construction of knowledge about the social world. The paper concludes with a prolegomena that recasts walking in the form of a geographically informed pedagogical practice

Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Key (lock · Limiting · Motif (music · Scholarship · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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