Walking as Critical Pedagogy (Routledge Advances in Research Methods)

Defining the principles and practices of walking as critical pedagogy, this book engages with social questions and challenges related to understandings of the Anthropocene.

Through a series of chapters that operationalize walking as a form of participatory pedagogy, it explores issues including migration and borders, sustainability and climate change, gender and feminist thought, the labour market, crime and rehabilitation, and urban life and regeneration. Showing how walking enables us to learn creatively, convivially and critically on the move in city spaces, while thinking relationally, the authors demonstrate the importance of space, time and place: the layers of history embedded in the present, and the importance of active, embodied, participatory, collaborative, creative and place based learning.

A pioneering approach to walking as a form of engagement and learning, Walking as Critical Pedagogy will appeal to researchers and students across the social sciences interested in new methods and research methodologies, and creative ways of teaching and learning about – and engaging with – major global issues in society.

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.