1st Edition
Walking and Leisure Mobilities, Encounters and Critical Engagements
Introduction: Leisurely Walking
Miriam Snellgrove
Part I: Mobilities
1. Where is the Leisure When Walking with a Baby?: Unruly and Leaky Bodies
Louise Platt and Anna Powell
2. Disabled Mobilities and Critical Embodied Entanglements in the Park: Walk this Way
Phillippa Wiseman
3. The Queer Politics of Walking with Digital Technologies
Eve Stowe
4. Race, Nature, and Historical Memory: Walking Hadrian’s Wall
Jacqueline L. Scott and Mohammed Dhalech
5. The Role of the Erotic in Black Women’s Leisure
Donna Chambers
Part II: Encounters
6. Walking with Cancer, Walking with my Father
Miriam Snellgrove
7. Walking and Stopping Together in the Carceral Landscape of the Isle of Portland
Aila Spathopoulou
8. Walking with a Cat: Feline Exercise as a Challenge to Established Norms in Urban Environments
Brian Simpson
9. Storying a Place through Walking and Alternative Map Making with Others
Tricia Enns
10. The Importance of Everyday Walking Routines for Ageing Well in Place
Hannah Grove
Part III: Critical Engagements
11. Walking In the Spatial Order of Automobility
Richard Randell, Ivana Rapoš Božič, Robert Braun, Eva Kotašková, Kateřina Nedbálková, Karel Němeček, Tomáš Paul and Csaba Szaló
12. Creative Walking: Repetition, Rhythm and Respite in Pandemic Times
Clare Qualmann, Deirdre Heddon, Maggie O’Neill, Morag Rose, and Harry Wilson
13. Reimagining the City Walking Tour to Stimulate a Critical Engagement with Place
Natalie Bamford and Kitty McKay
14. Walking as a Socio-political Form of Transforming Civic Experience: Slippage of Leisure
Wattana Songpetchmongkol and Sing Hang Tam
Biography
Miriam Snellgrove is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research explores the everyday politics and pleasures of leisure—particularly walking, swimming and the mindsport bridge—through qualitative methodologies including ethnography, poetry, diaries and interviews. She is particularly interested in collaborative research that foregrounds the lived experiences of participants and examines how leisure intersects with social inequalities. Her work contributes to wider discussions on methodological innovation and the sociological significance of everyday leisure.
