Walking in the City as an Experienced Practice
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8069.19.4.08Keywords:
contemplative studies, walking in the city, body, emotions, self-observations, sociology of body, sociology of emotionsAbstract
The paper is a contemplative explication of the walking process. What are the essential features of walking, and how do those who stroll around the city experience walking? We used contemplative research methods and explication of the phenomenon of walking. The research is based on self-observation and self-reporting about the thoughts, body feelings, and emotions that emerge during walks.
In the paper, we describe the features of the phenomenon of walking. First, we investigate the minding process generated by walking in the city. Then, we elaborate on the pathic dimension of walking (especially the mood), body feelings (lived body), lived relations, and reflections on life and self that are a consequence of walking.
References
Azizi Maryam (2021), Does Walking Help with Mental Health Problems?, https://www.news-medical.net/health/Does-Walking-Aid-Mental-Health-Problems.aspx (accessed: 5.09.2023).
Baudelaire Charles (1964), The Painter of Modern Life, [in:] The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, edited and translated by Jonathan Mayne, London: Phaidon Press, s. 1–33.
Bauman Zygmunt (1994), Desert spectacular, [in:] K. Tester (ed.), The flaneur, London–New York: Routledge, pp. 138–157. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203420713_chapter_7
Benjamin Walter (1997), Charles Baudelaire: a lyric poet in the era of high capitalism, London–New York: Verso.
Bentz Valerie M., Giorgino Vincenzo (2016), Contemplative Social Research. Caring for Self, Being and Lifeworld, Santa Barbara: Fielding University Press.
Bentz Valerie M., Shapiro Jeremy J. (1998), Mindful inquiry in social research, Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781452243412
Blumer Herbert (1969), Symbolic Interactionism. Perspective and Method, Berkley: University of California Press.
Byung-Chul Han (2022), Społeczeństwo zmęczenia i inne eseje, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej.
Caparrós Martin (2020), Hunger, Brooklyn–London: Melville House.
Certeau Michel de (1984), The Practice of Everyday Life, Berkeley: University of California Press.
Clark Candance (2002), Taming the „Brute Being”: Sociology Reckons with Emotionality, [in:] Joseph A. Kotarba, John M. Johnson (eds.), Postmodern Existential Sociology, Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, pp. 155–182.
Cochrane Joe (2017), Jakarta, the City Where Nobody Wants to Walk, “New York Times”, August 20, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/world/asia/jakarta-walking-study-sidewalks.html (accessed: 5.09.2023).
Coverley Merlin (2012), The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker, London: Oldcastle Books.
DeSilva Jeremy (2022), Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism, “Scientific American”, November 1, 2022, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fossils-upend-conventional-wisdom-about-evolution-of-human-bipedalism/ (accessed: 22.09.2023).
Gallagher Shaun (2005), How the body shapes the mind, Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/0199271941.001.0001
Gibson James J. (2015), The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, Classical Edition, New York: Psychology Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315740218
Goffman Erving (1967), Interaction Ritual. Essays on Face to Face Behavior, New York: Anchor Books.
Gros Frédéric (2021), Marcher, une Philosophie, Paris: Editions Albin Michel.
Hall Tom (2009), Footwork: moving and knowing in local space(s), “Qualitative Research”, vol. 9(5), pp. 571–585, https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794109343626 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794109343626
Kaag John (2018), Hiking with Nietzsche. On Becoming Who You Are, New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux.
Kaczyński: palić „wszystkim poza oponami i podobnymi rzeczami”. A co na to prawo? (2022), https://konkret24.tvn24.pl/polska/kaczynski-palic-wszystkim-poza-oponami-i-podobnymi-rzeczami-a-co-na-to-prawo-ra1117472-ls6113425 (accessed: 21.09.2023).
Kočková Jana (2015), Walking in the city: A case study of the streets in Brno, “Human Affairs”, vol. 4(26), pp. 422–439. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2016-0036
Konecki Krzysztof T. (2017), Standing in Public Places: An Ethno-Zenic Experiment Aimed at Developing the Sociological Imagination and More Besides…, “Czech Sociological Review”, vol. 53(6), pp. 881–901. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2017.53.6.379
Konecki Krzysztof T. (2018), Advances in Contemplative Social Research, Łódź–Krakow: Lodz University Press, Jagiellonian University Press.
Konecki Krzysztof T. (2022), The Meaning of Contemplation for Social Qualitative Research. Applications and Examples, London–New York: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003179689
Kotarba Joseph A., Johnson John M. (eds.) (2002), Postmodern Existential Sociology, Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.
Lewis Dyani (2023), Short arms and lanky legs: the genetic basis of walking on two legs, “Nature”, July 20 2023, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02345-7 (accessed: 21.09.2023)
Lovejoy C. Owen (1988), Evolution of Human Walking, “Scientific American”, vol. 259(5), pp. 118–125, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24989268 (accessed: 21.09.2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1188-118
Low Kelvin E.Y., Kalekin-Fishman Devorah (eds.) (2018), Senses in Cities. Experiences of Urban Settings, Abingdon: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315527376
Majer Andrzej (2015), Mikropolis. Socjologia miasta osobistego, Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/7969-856-1
Manen Max van (2014), The phenomenology of Practice. Meaning Giving Methods in Phenomenological Research and Writing, London–New York: Routledge.
Manen Max van (2016), Researching Lived Experience. Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy, New York–London: Routledge.
Merleau-Ponty Maurice (1962), Phenomenology of Perception, London: Routledge.
Middleton Jennie (2011), Walking in the City: The Geographies of Everyday Pedestrian Practices, “Geography Compass”, no. 5, pp. 90–105, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00409.x DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00409.x
Moore Robert (1995), Dereification in Zen Buddhism, “The Sociological Quarterly”, vol. 36(4), pp. 699–723. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1995.tb00461.x
National Walking Month: how walking can boost your mental health (2023), https://www.healthassured.org/blog/national-walking-month/ (accessed: 6.09.2023).
Nhat Hanh Thich (2021), Walking Meditation: Easy Steps to Mindfulness, Louisville: Sounds True Inc.
Oblak Ales, Boyadzhieva Asena, Caporusso Jaya, Škodlar Borut, Bon Jurij (2022), How Things Take Up Space: A Grounded Theory of Presence and Lived Space, “The Qualitative Report”, vol. 27(11), pp. 2556–2582, https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5762 DOI: https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5762
Paetzold Heinz (2013), The Aesthetics of City Strolling, “Contemporary Aesthetics”, vol. 11, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/ca/7523862.0011.023?view=text;rgn=main (accessed: 6.09.2023).
Pink Sarah (2009), Doing Sensory Ethnography, London: SAGE. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446249383
Rehorick David A., Bentz Valerie Malhotra (eds.) (2008), Transformative Phenomenology. Changing Ourselves, Lifeworlds, and Professional Practice, Lanham: Lexington Books.
Reimann Maria (2019), Nie przywitam się z państwem na ulicy. Szkic o doświadczaniu niepełnosprawności, Wołowiec: Wydawnictwo Czarne.
Rosa Hartmut (2020), Przyspieszenie, wyobcowanie, rezonans. Projekt krytycznej teorii późnonowoczesnej czasowości, Gdańsk: Europejskie Centrum Solidarności.
Rosenbloom Stephanie (2023), The Art of Being a Flâneur, “New York Times”, June 19, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/travel/walking-travel-cities.html (accessed: 5.09.2023).
Solnit Rebecca (2008), Zew włóczęgi. Opowieści wędrowne (Wanderlust), Kraków: Karakter.
Svensson Marina (2021), Walking in the historic neighbourhoods of Beijing: walking as an embodied encounter with heritage and urban developments, “International Journal of Heritage Studies”, vol. 27(8), pp. 792–805, https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2020.1821240 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2020.1821240
Tanaka Shogo (2018), Bodily Basis of the Diverse Modes of the Self, “Human Arenas”, vol. 1, pp. 223–230, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-018-0030-x DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-018-0030-x
Downloads
Published
Versions
- 2023-11-30 (2)
- 2023-11-30 (1)
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
How to Cite
