Walking as Critical Pedagogy

Introduction: Walking as Critical Pedagogy – Principles and Practice

MAGGIE O’NEILL, DANIELLE O’DONOVAN, JOHN BARIMO, GERARD MULLALLY, AMIN SHARIFI ISALOO, KIERAN KEOHANE, TOM SPALDING, KATHARINA SWIRAK, TOM BOLAND AND RAY GRIFFIN

1 Walking as Critical Pedagogy: A Feminist Walk in Cork

MAGGIE O’NEILL AND DANIELLE O’DONOVAN

2 Walking Through the Anthropocene: Pathways to Sustainability?

GERARD MULLALLY AND JOHN BARIMO

3 Migration, Liminality and Place: Migration Walk as Critical Pedagogy

AMIN SHARIFI ISALOO AND MAGGIE O’NEILL

4 Cork’s ‘Wandering Rocks’: Walking as Urban Sociology

KIERAN KEOHANE

5 Layers – Walking Through Time on the Streets of Cork: Walking as Reformative and Transgressive

TOM SPALDING

6 Walking, Crime, Justice and Reintegration

KATHARINA SWIRAK, TONY KENNY, PAUL O’ROURKE AND KEITH PURCELL

7 Seeing the Labour Market Unfold: Encounters on the Street Level

TOM BOLAND AND RAY GRIFFIN

Biography

Maggie O’Neill is Professor in Sociology & Criminology and Director of the Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century and UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the co-author of Walking Methods: Research on the Move.

Danielle O’Donovan is an architectural historian, heritage consultant and Director of The Butter Museum, Cork.

John Barimo is Manager of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Ireland, Office of Sustainability and Climate Action, University College Cork, Ireland.

Gerard Mullally is Senior Lecturer in the Department in Sociology and Criminology at University College Cork, Ireland.

Amin Sharifi Isaloo is Lecturer in the Department in Sociology and Criminology at University College Cork, Ireland.

Kieran Keohane is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the co-editor of Late Modern Subjectivity and Its Discontents and The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization.

Tom Spalding is Lecturer in the Department of Media Communications at Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland.

Katharina Swirak is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland.

Tom Boland is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Head of Department of Sociology and Criminology at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of The Spectacle of Critique.

Ray Griffin is Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at the South East Technological University, Waterford, Ireland.

‘This sparkling, accessible collection makes a significant and unique contribution to academic discussions about walking as critical pedagogy. In their different approaches to roaming through the layered historical palimpsest of the city and its vital, myriad spaces, the authors, students and other participants experience, conceive and imagine the city otherwise, disclosing a wealth of sensory, theoretical and historical insights. In attuning to the pedestrian experiences of forgotten and overlooked urban inhabitants - women, migrants, the unemployed and recently incarcerated – this book offers an interdisciplinary and inclusive approach that foregrounds lived experiences and avoids theoretical and methodological purism.’

- Tim Edensor, Emeritus Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the Institute of Place Management, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

'Walking as Critical Pedagogy brings a fascinating set of experiences and perspectives from applying walking methods to understand the City from collaborative processes. In critical dialogue with the legacy of Paulo Freire, this book creatively shows the possibilities of walking for research and teaching– definitely, a joy to read and learn.'

- Lígia Ferro, Professor of Sociology at the University of Porto, Portugal

'I have indelible memories of walk-and-talks with classmates in graduate school. Walking has been an integral part of my thinking and reflecting-with others or alone. The editors have had the brilliant idea of devoting a fascinating volume to the time-honored peripatetic approach. Reading it will refresh and inspire.'

- Professor Alfonso Montouri, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Franscisco