Walking Methods: Research on the Move

This book introduces and critically explores walking as an innovative method for doing social research, showing how its sensate and kinaesthetic attributes facilitate connections with lived experiences, journeys and memories, communities and identities.

Author: Maggie O'Neill,Brian Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 07/22/2019
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781138182486

About the Author

Maggie O'Neill is Professor in Sociology at the University of Cork. She has a long history of doing critical theory/feminist research and conducting walking, participatory and biographical methods with communities and artists, as well as marginalised groups on topics such as sex work, migration, and participatory, creative, and arts-based methodologies.

Brian Roberts taught and researched at several UK universities and was a visiting academic at institutions in a number of countries. He was closely associated with the early work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. He has written widely on biographical research, social theory, and research practice.