‘Walking . . . just walking’: how children and young people’s everyday pedestrian practices matter.

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Horton, J. Christensen, P. Kraftl, P. & Hadfield-Hill, S.
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This paper considers the importance of walking for many children and young people's everyday lives, experiences and friendships. Drawing upon research with 175 9- to 16-year-olds living in new urban developments in south-east England, the authors highlight key characteristics of (daily, taken-for-granted, ostensibly aimless) walking practices, which were of constitutive importance in children and young people's friendships, communities and geographies. These practices were characteristically bounded, yet intense and circuitous. They were vivid, vital, loved, playful, social experiences yet also dismissed, with a shrug, as ‘just walking’. The authors argue that ‘everyday pedestrian practices’ like these require critical reflection upon chief social scientific theorisations of walking, particularly the large body of literature on children's independent mobility and the rich, multi-disciplinary line of work known as ‘new walking studies’. In arguing that these lines of work could be productively interrelated, they propound ‘just walking’- particularly the often-unremarked way it matters - as a kind of phenomenon which is sometimes done a disservice by chief lines of theory and practice in social and cultural geography. (Author/publisher)

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Bibliotheeknummer
20200183 ST [electronic version only]
Uitgave

Social and Cultural Geography, Vol. 15 (2014), No. 1, p. 94-115, ref.

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