Overview

Going for a walk with twenty sociologists, this collection is a playful rendition of the social worlds that we move in and through. From city streets to coastlines, along riverbanks and through street markets, alone and together, each walk blurs descriptive, poetic and theoretical observations and insights to reveal the worlds we live in afresh. Attending to the politics and poetics of walking and place, the collection challenges the taken for granted privileges of mobility, highlights the ways in which walking is embodied and situated, and shows how social life unfolds in and through spaces. Learning on and from the streets, tracing footprints, and attending to rhythms, these walks map sociological thought, and carve new paths in the terrain of the sociological imagination. -- .

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Author:   Charlotte Bates ,  Emma Jackson
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
ISBN:  

9781526184917

ISBN 10:   1526184915
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   17 March 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction: a sociological field guide – Emma Jackson and Charlotte Bates Circulate 1 Pound shop: walking the intersections between Yiwu and Dalston – Laura Henneke and Caroline Knowles 2 Hiding in plain sight: walking through race and space on Brixton Station Road – Karis Campion 3 Walking routes, talking toilets: exploring pitstops of public toilet access in everyday life – Lauren White 4 Distribution landscapes: a walk through the trading estates of south London – Louise Rondel 5 Walking with nurdles: reflections on a plastic beach clean – Alice Mah Trace 6 Breaking down the walls of Partick: tracing cycles of urban neoliberalism and resistance – Kirsteen Paton 7 Walls and bridges: or, what’s so funny ‘bout peace, love and understanding – Daryl Martin 8 Traces of industrial York – Nicholas Gane 9 A walk along Chester’s canal: peeling back the past to rediscover colonial era Cheshire – Julia Bennett 10 Walking the line: search practices, environment and the practice of care in mountain rescue work – Robin James Smith 11 Walking through waves: technology, the Thames and urban development – Alex Rhys-Taylor 12 In the Big Yin’s footsteps: class, belonging and the long walk home – Les Back 13 Under a hawthorn tree or thoughts about nightingales and war – Vron Ware Recompose 14 The rhythms of walking and doing sociology on The Street – Dawn Lyon 15 Territory and temporality on the university campus – Katherine Quinn 16 Your feet may change size: murder mystery, motherhood and the anti-carceral imagination – Phil Crockett Thomas 17 Black dog, brown disabled man, white world – Viji Kuppan 18 Listening to urban change on the River Ravensbourne – Emma Jackson 19 Walking into the current – Charlotte Bates 20 Walking away and returning: letting go of ashes in Blackpool and Stratford Upon Avon – Nirmal Puwar Hidden track Index -- .

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Charlotte Bates is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Cardiff University Emma Jackson is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Sociology at LSE -- .

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