Walking ‘With’, Walking Within

Walking is never just walking. Bodies are mobile in different ways and move with both quality and affect.

For instance, scholars have recently theorized about various embodied methods of mobility, such as drifting, cycling, and more, and how such methods might contribute to new forms of knowledge. Accessibility and various physical, but also political, infrastructural, legal, cultural, gender, and racial constraints — to mention a few — also influence the ways in which humans and nonhumans move. Considering the amount of variability in how to approach ‘walking’ as method as well as the multiple forms of nonhuman mobilities that intersect and co-produce the innumerable paths made and traversed, we ask how to further ‘hybridize’ walking methodologies.

Building on theories of hybrid and more-than-human geographies and Morizot’s concept of ‘tracking,’ this article provides theoretical and practical reflections upon walking as method in the context of more-than-human relations. Specifically, we describe and…