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The Politics of Walking: Rural Women Encounters with Space and Memoir
Get PDFA group of elderly and retired women from a northern village in Spain (they call themselves las chicas, the girls), try gather every week to take a walk together. Assembling my ethnographic notes, I describe the walk and offer an analytical foray into the following questions: What can we learn about the rural and the relationship of these women with the rural? What is the specificity of walking here? Walking is a practice that has in this case a twofold capacity: walking creates a mobile space for visibility in in which rural women’s work is considered private, and thus, walking provides a precious inter-subjective space for relationality; and second, the walk enacts a particular archaeology of memoir. The landscape bears witness to the socioeconomic changes of the rural environment. Such memoirs are actualized in the walk. Finally, as las chicas walk, not only do they travel across space and time, their movement allows for a particular methodological engagement of the researcher with the methods of research. Mobilities often question what hinders mobilities. But here my question is, what is the walking telling us about both the rural and these women in the rural context
"Walking Threads, Threading Walk": Embroidering Reflection
Get PDFThis both visual and textual contribution consists of a series of four separate embroideries on textile (Fig. 1, 2, 3, 4), which can be assembled into a unique piece (Fig. 5), and of a text, that engages with a reflection on the overall process of creation with and transformation of a particular daily object: a yarn of golden thread. The contribution has been inspired by the first ‘Walking Threads’ walk and event in Seaton Park, Old Aberdeen, March 2014, from which the ongoing ‘Walking Threads’ project has been initiated. The work is intended as a specific way of ‘thinking through making’ (Ingold 2013) and of further developing the research insights that appeared during and after that walk. In what ways materials, artefacts, skill apprenticeship, gesture, , lines, breathing and the ‘weather-world’ (Ingold 2007a, b, 2015) can relate to each other? It is also a personal attempt to respond to the Ingoldian call towards a ‘Graphic’ Anthropology’, within which ‘to follow the materials, to learn the movements and to draw the lines’ (Ingold 2013) are the main points at the very core of its agenda.
Interrupted everyday motions – journeying with threads and lives
Get PDFThis piece of poetry was written as a response to the event which gave birth to the Walking Threads project, which happened in Seaton Park on March 21 2014
Stepping in and out of the picture: a drawing-based reflection on Walking Threads
Get PDFThis paper describes the process of making sense of the experience of Walking Threads, as mediated by the activities of writing and of drawing. It explicitly mobilises forms of imagination and inflections of consciousness which pertain to memory, dream and creative engagement
Introducing the Walking Threads Project
Get PDFThe following collections of essays and creative interventions of Paola Esposito, Ragnhild Freng Dale, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, and Brian Schultis are the result of individual attempts to recall, reflect, and make sense of an exercise called "Walking threads". It also expressed a commitment to allow experiences to grow within and between the authors in an exercise of attunement
A Windswept Archipelago: Stories of Perception, Time and Landscape in the Orkney Islands
Get PDFThis paper explores the interconnection between individual experience, place and time in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, an island now renowned for the generation and development of renewable energy. I consider and discuss three informant\u27s comments on wind turbines in particular. Each ethnographic example I include expresses its own time-orientation. The aim is to draw out the complexities of the difference in perception and opinion experienced by each example, in order to discuss why and how difference in perception and experience of the landscape occurs and why it matters
Becoming With, in Life and Death
Get PDFAbstract: Based on a life-long relationship between trust and domination of human and horse, this essay is a personal reflection on how perceptions and relationships shape the way we (as humans and non-humans in shared relationships) deal with implemented mercy deaths. What can we learn from our non-human companions when it comes to the decision of putting them down? This essay explores, on one hand, the relation between domination and compassion as a way of dealing with an animal’s life and death. On the other hand it investigates trust and correspondence beyond borders of human exceptionalism as a different, more open way of becoming with each other, focussing on the transformative potential of co-responding relationships
Walking Threads: A Memory and a Reflective Speculation Inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Fèlix Guattari
Get PDFIn this short piece, Brian Schultis reflects on an experience of walking carrying a gold thread with four others in Aberdeen in Spring, 2014. Schultis first remembers the experience and then speculates at a possible theoretical interpretation. Following Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, he describes the event becoming a component of a haecceity, and suggests that the embodied memory of such and individuation may be a way of thinking about intimacy
