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Walking as Respectful Wayfinding in an Uncertain Age
- Lesley Instone (author)
Chapter of: Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene(pp. 133–138)
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| Title | Walking as Respectful Wayfinding in an Uncertain Age |
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| Contributor | Lesley Instone (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0100.1.24 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/manifesto-for-living-in-the-anthropocene/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Instone, Lesley |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2015-04-14 |
| Long abstract | In 2010 I made a short trip to the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. My main impetus was to visit the ancient standing stones at Calanais as well as experience, however briefly and vicariously, other worlds, lives and landscapes. Regardless that I had only a couple of days on the island, I decided to catch the local bus and walk to the sights rather than hire a car. I’m sure many readers have made similar choices and experienced the delights of being on foot in an unfamiliar place. Instead of the ordinary, regular, enclosed, plastic world of automobility, I was greeted by smells, animals, uneven surfaces, twisting paths, sheep, dogs, farmers, wind, sun, and more. My intention is not to romanticize walking, nor to suggest a singular notion of walking. How I walk, what I look at, and my practices of movement and thinking are all shaped by historically contingent cultural practices of looking and moving that are familiar to those with a European cultural heritage. Acknowledging this is to understand that walking is as cultural as it is embodied, and that there are many ways to walk, many ways of seeing and knowing (Solnit 2000; Ingold 2000; Amato 2004). What I do want to emphasize is the in-terrelation between body, knowing, place and feeling. In many ways the random and impromptu qualities of walking engender a kind of openness to surprises and chance encoun-ters that provoke affective ways of knowing (Solnit 2000, 11). The intermeshing of movement, mind, body, land/scape, ground and atmosphere transport us into a realm of inex-pressible, ineffable and fleeting relatings, where we know “the world through the body and the body through the world” (Solnit 2000, 29). |
| Page range | pp. 133–138 |
| Print length | 6 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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