*You can read the following text in whatever “order”. [4] Ocularcentrism, and its inherited potential of adopting an objectifying gaze and drowning out other senses, is followed by physiological divisions of labour and the perceived superiority of the hands over…

Movements—as seemingly mundane as walking— partake in the continual construction of a place. As everyday patterns of movements (re)create spaces, walking serves as an active technique to “contribute to the ongoing formations of place” (Ingold 2011, 44). Thus the possibility…

Walking at a contemplative pace lends insights into the intricacies of place. This practice offers promising potential to the aims of ethnography to craft intimate accounts, disorient and reorient the reader, and draw out new perspectives—through the surprising, spontaneous, routine,…

Notwithstanding the importance of walking in producing ethnographic data, the process itself is often overlooked in final accounts. As Ingold and Vergunst write, “ethnographers…are accustomed to carrying out much of their work on foot [yet] it is rare to find…