Horton, J, Christensen, P orcid.org/0000-0002-9181-8638, Kraftl, P et al. (1 more author) (2014) 'Walking... just walking': how children and young people's everyday pedestrian practices matter. Social and Cultural Geography, 15 (1). pp. 94-115. ISSN 1464-9365
Abstract
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, we 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'. We argue that 'everyday pedestrian practices' (after Middleton 2010, 2011) 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, we 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.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2016 15:46 |
Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2016 15:46 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2013.864782 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14649365.2013.864782 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106133 |