Running With Zombies

Capturing New Worlds Through Movement and Visibility Practices With Zombies, Run

Bibliographic Data

ID2409623
AuthorsE Witkowski (0000-0002-1729-1954, RMIT University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume13
Issue2
Pages153-173
Publication date2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGames and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1555-4120 • E-ISSN: 1555-4139
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1555412015613884
OpenAlexW2397532924
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

This is a study on the aesthetics and embodied spatial experiences of running. Investigated here are questions on how bodies navigate local terrain through the practice of running, and how running bodies are made visible as networked and gendered agents moving in their public space. It is a qualitative study of networked movement, a feel of running, where the footwork of women in particular is located. To consider such textures of movement, this research works from a phenomenologically inspired sociology of running with a specific playful app in hand, Zombies, Run! This work suggests how playfulness tied to the very basic action of forward movement can cultivate new understandings of being in the world through other kinds of running body practices, prompting new attentions to movement, public space, and one's position and mobility within it as a gendered body on the run

Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Dynamics (music · Embodied cognition · Geography · Movement (music · Position (finance · Public space · Sociology · Terrain · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Computer Science · Engineering · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society · Artificial Intelligence

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