One by Walking

Transdisciplinary Mobilities and Methodologies

Camilla Brudin Borg, Hanna E. Åberg, Roger Norum, Suzanne Österlund-Pötzsch, John Martin

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN: 9798216351979
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

More than just a way to get from place to place, walking is a powerful method of sensing, reflecting, and engaging–with ourselves, with others, and with the environments we move through. Whether as a meditative act, a research tool, or a response to global crises, walking opens new routes to understanding and more mindful ways of living. This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary collection brings together voices from the social sciences, humanities, and the arts to explore walking as both method and metaphor. From mobility and sustainability to embodied experience and ecological connection, these essays uncover the rich, often overlooked dimensions of walking–how it links us to landscapes, histories, and communities, and how it helps shape our place in the world. Born out of the international research network One by Walking: Transdisciplinary Mobilities and Methodologies offers fresh, thought-provoking insights into walking as a creative, intellectual, and political practice. For scholars, educators, artists, and walkers of all kinds, this book is an invitation to step into deeper ways of thinking–one footfall at a time.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: One by Walking, Won by Walking
• 1 Whose Healing? Reflexive Walking and a More-than-Human Perspective on Moving-with-Nature
• 2 Placing Walking: Notes and Reflections from and About Kinetic Lifescapes
• 3 Sentient Walking and the Good Life
• 4 Oceanic Mobilities: Walking-as-Method in Aquatic Environments
• 5 Walking with Sensitivity
• 6 Possibilities in Motion: Prosthetic Maps and Micro-Walks for Tectonic Encounters
• 7 “My Place in Nature”: Significant Places in Nature and a Good Life
• 8 Walking Is Also Space: Walking Beyond Distance
• 9 Walking Back Waste: Rethinking Transects to Challenge Human Nature in Nature
• 10 Folkloric Walking Methods for Environmental Entanglement
• 11 And That Has Made All the Difference: Two Marches from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
• 12 Walking Outside the Box: A Visual and Sensory Landscape Journey to Capture Perceptual Values
• 13 Natural Training: Exploring Historical Ideas and Potential Futures of Sustainable Running
• 14 Telematic Soundwalking: Toward the Sonorous Step
• 15 Walking (and Paddling and Flying) with Heritage: Archaeologists’ Daughters’ Mobilities Across Northern Landscapes Captured on Disposable Cameras
• 16 Walking Interrupted
• 17 Walking for Treasures: Scavenger Apps, Attention Management, and the Creation of Heritage Topographies
• 18 More-than-Human Tracks: Walking on the Rendena Cattle Summer Pasture Trails in the Italian Alps
• 19 Constructing the Path: A Qualitative Exploration on Foot
• 20 Powered by Nature’s Call: Fecal Footprints and Biopolitics in a Nordic Tourist Landscape
• 21 Esoteric Limping: A Speculation on Supernatural Walking
• 22 The Pedagogical Praxes of Walking
• Index
• Contributors
• Copyright