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Sound clip 1: Experience of walking blindfolded. Sound credit – Elaine Stratford.
No full text<p>Sound clip 1: Experience of walking blindfolded. Sound credit – Elaine Stratford.</p>
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<p>Co-producing Mobilities</p>
<p>Sound clip 1: Experience of walking blindfolded. Sound credit – Elaine Stratford.</p
Experiencing the Run:
No full text<p>The recent interest in movement and mobile practices within human geography and social sciences (Adey, 2009; Cresswell, 2011; Sheller and Urry, 2006) has asked new questions of and challenged existing research methodologies. The upsurge in 'mobile methods' (Büscher et al, 2010; Fincham et al, 2010; Hein et al, 2008) has proposed several new techniques aimed at capturing the fleeting nature of mobile experiences, techniques which are regularly put into practice. Yet very few studies adopt more than one method in meeting this aim and thus a direct comparison of the merits of such methods is somewhat lacking. My paper addresses this issue by utilising a multi-method approach to researching the mobile practice of road-running. More specifically, I will be looking at the methods of video-ethnography (Spinney, 2009) and 'go-along' (Anderson, 2004) as tools for exploring the experiences of road-running; discussing their comparative advantages and disadvantages as well as evaluating the multi-method approach. I argue that each method offers nuanced and differentiated knowledges about mobile practices, entailing that the adoption of a multi-method approach to be particularly fruitful. To summarise, this paper, by closely examining video-ethnography and 'go-along' methods, sheds new light on the uses of multi-mobile-methods.</p
Sound clip 2: Sounds of the Underground. Sound credit – Elaine Stratford.
No full text<p>Sound clip 2: Sounds of the Underground. Sound credit – Elaine Stratford. </p>
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<p>Sound clip 2: Sounds of the Underground. Sound credit – Elaine Stratford. </p
Co-Producing Mobilities
No full text<p>This session aims to creatively engage with the conference theme head-on by exploring the co-production of mobilities - both the practices and the intellectual field. Bringing together geographers looking at mobility from a diverse range of perspectives allows for a collaborative engagement with key issues emerging in studies of mobility, transport and movement. The unique session aspires to mobilise new pathways and potentialities for the understanding of mobility practices and studies of mobility.</p>
<p>In the activity-based first half (in the field), we will engage with and creatively record/’follow’ different modes of urban travel through a range of methods, highlighting the means by which they can be understood as co-produced. It will challenge the study of mobilities to go beyond the journey/subject itself and ask what is entangled before, after and in-between the actual moments of movement. In the second part of the session, a roundtable discussion will be held to explore the connections and understandings gained and the implications of these co-productions - what difference might it make in scholarship and practice to see mobilities as produced by - and producing - complex webs, how may this lead to different ways of doing, reading, writing, collaborating and communicating mobilities?</p
Picture file 5: Being prompted by things on the journey. Photo credit – Kate Evans
No full text<p>Picture file 5: Being prompted by things on the journey. Photo credit – Kate Evans</p>
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Not Just Running: Coping with and Managing Everyday Life through Road-Running
No full text<p>From the external form, running looks like running. Yet this alikeness masks a hugely divergent practice consisting of different movements, meanings and experiences. In this paper I wish to shed light upon some of these different ‘ways of running’ and in turn identify a range of the sometimes surprising, sometimes significant and sometimes banal benefits that road-running can gift its practitioners beyond simply exercise and physical fitness. Drawing on an innovative mapping and ethnographic project, I firstly wish to draw attention to the ways that road-running can offers a means of coping with everyday life through experiencing it as a form of escape; a retreat and reprieve from the complexities and confusions of everyday life. In doing so, I will discuss three types of escape: to somewhere, from somewhere and inside oneself, exploring how the motions, spaces and time of running provides such opportunities. The time that running requires it not always a gift however, and I hope to, secondly, highlight the need to synchronise running with the rest of life’s rhythms and demands. This will be done by exploring running as a commute; runners that utilise pre-existing travel time to run and this ‘way of running’ subsequently opens up space to begin to consider running as a form of transport as well as exercise.</p
Picture file 3: Gap-toothed cobbles. Photo credit – Elaine Stratford.
No full text<p>Picture file 3: Gap-toothed cobbles. Photo credit – Elaine Stratford.</p>
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<p>Picture file 3: Gap-toothed cobbles. Photo credit – Elaine Stratford.</p
Do you have to be a runner to research running? An insider-outsider debate
No full text<p>Running related research and work has been gaining much momentum over the last few years – this festival is a testament to that. This energy often seems to be driven by people who confess to be runners themselves and it rather begs the question as to whether being a runner is prerequisite for researching running. This 10-minute debate/discussion seeks to probe this question and draw out the benefits and negatives of being an insider or an outsider to the practice.<br>Delegates will be asked to draw on their own experiences to think about questions such as:<br>• Are you an insider or an outsider?<br>• How did you come to study running?<br>• What are the benefits and challenges of being an insider/outsider?<br>• What does being an insider/outsider conceal and reveal?<br>• How does researching running change your relationship to the practice and your insider/outsider status?<br>• Are running-researchers an exclusive community?<br>• How may the traits of running-research change as it gains popularity and reach in academia?</p
Running Order: Space, Power and Mobile Subjectivities
No full text<p>Being in-place, being out-of-place or in-between space evokes questions of belonging and citizenship. Recent work by Antonsich (2010) and Staeheli et al (2012) has suggested the dialogical nature of both these concepts – they are not just statuses given or felt but they are constantly contested, reinforced or challenged by others, legal frameworks and normative codes. In this paper, I wish to apply such understandings to the mobile spaces of the street and explore how different mobile subjects are constructed as in-place or otherwise, hinting towards ideas of mobile rights to space and mobile hierarchy. More specifically, I will explore the encounters and relationships between road-runners and pedestrians and how their transient propinquities construct each other as in-place or out-of place. Due to the fleeting nature of such encounters, attention is drawn to the micro-scale movements and actions in such meetings as the dialogue that resists, reinforces or challenges claims to space by different mobile groups. Drawing upon innovative ethnographic methods, I will demonstrate how the ordinary and everyday negotiation of space reveals different power in, rights to and responsibilities in space as well as the guiding frameworks behind such actions. The balance of evidence suggests that pedestrians have a greater or primary claim to space with runners having to concede their mobile subjectivity most often, constructing them as having a secondary claim to space - occasionally in place and occasionally out of space (literally and metaphorically). Yet understanding the subjectivities of different mobilities also hints towards ways in which space can be shared more equally, based upon mutual respect rather than power relations and how living with mobile difference can be improved.</p
Picture file 2: 196 steps. Photo credit – Elaine Stratford.
No full text<p>Picture file 2: 196 steps. Photo credit – Elaine Stratford.</p>
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