Detour: Bodies, memories, and mobilities in and around the home

Ratnam, Charishma; Drozdzewski, Danielle

doi:10.1080/17450101.2020.1780071

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“…These issues could have been even greater in this study because the interviews took place in the participants’ private homes and the interviewer had to be very focused to collect the perspectives. Nevertheless, Ratnam and Drozdzewski (2020) filmed the walk-along interviews conducted in home environments of Sri Lankan refugees, which allowed them to capture the walking routes, sensory aspects of the environment as well as the body language of the participants as they were sharing their stories. Yet, the authors do not discuss the ethical issues raised by this method.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Walking Interview: A Promising Method for Promoting the Participation of Autistic People in Research Projects

Marcotte

Grandisson

Milot

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International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Walking interviews are increasingly used in the field of health to understand the relationship between individuals and places. With this method, the interviewer and the participant move from place to place within an environment and use it to enrich the discussion. Several advantages have been reported concerning its use, such as the richness of the data it provides and that it allows interviewers to immerse themselves in the participant’s world. This article is based on the experience of using walking interviews in an innovative context, with 10 autistic adolescents and adults and 13 parents. The method was used in the participants’ home environment, as part of study conducted in Québec (Canada) on home environment factors that influence autistic people’s independence at home. It was chosen to meet the study objectives, but also to support the participation of autistic people in research interviews. These people’s participation in research can be a challenge when data collection methods are not adapted, given the difficulties that some have communicating and interacting socially, as well as discussing abstract topics. In this article, the advantages, limitations and suggestions related to the use of walking interviews are reported from the participants’ and interviewer’s perspectives. The authors also discuss the potential for using walking interviews to collect the perspectives of other populations, especially those with difficulties expressing themselves, such as allophones or people with language disorders.

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“…Finlay and Bowman (2017), for their part, used it in residential settings of elderly people living autonomously, as well as in their neighbourhoods. Ratnam and Drozdzewski (2020) also used this method in home environments with Sri Lankan refugees in Australia. Moreover, walking interviews can be combined with other methods.…”

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The Walking Interview: A Promising Method for Promoting the Participation of Autistic People in Research Projects

Marcotte

Grandisson

Milot

et al. 2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…Moreover, go-along interviews allowed for participants to respond to visual and sensory cues, which acted as instigator for conversations, offering real-time access to participants' experiences of and practices in place (Burns et al, 2020). An important strength of walk-along interviews for this study was also the opportunity to explore movement away from assumed trajectories, here the official trails, and what prompted such detours, as discussed by Ratnam and Drozdzewski (2020).…”

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Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective

Witte

2021

Tourism Geographies

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Embodied mobilities are an important factor in how people engage with their environment, and thus contribute to the formation, contestation, and affirmation of place. Walking is a mobile place-making practice that most people engage in on an almost daily basis and which has thus been frequently investigated in regards to the consumption and construction of place. These explorations have predominantly been focusing on urban contexts and frequently taken the perspective of the multisensory, corporeal, cognitive, and emotional. However, discursive notions of who walks where and how, and how these ultimately contribute to place-making in tourism have been largely left unexplored. Employing a mobile approach to ethnography, walking as placemaking is here considered in the context of tourism, taking a discursive perspective. Drawing on two walking groups on the Cloudpass, one of the trails of China's Ancient Tea Horse Road in Yunnan, notions of legitimate walking practices and trails are explored in their discursive undercurrents, and resulting placemaking practices are outlined in conjunction with these and the encountered 'realities' of the trails. Complex interactions between walking tourists' beliefs around norms and regulations of walking and walking trails, and the Cloudpass' official narratives come to the fore, resulting in concrete practices of affirmation and contestation of the trail's legitimacy within tourists' subscribed to value systems. Touristic walking emerges as a discursive placemaking practice, mandating closer attention to be paid to the norms and regulations people subscribe to within touristic and recreational walking and their effects on how people engage with the places they walk. On the Cloudpass and the Ancient Tea Horse Road beyond, touristic walking practices informed by diverse discursive notions selectively strengthen narratives of place over others and concretely contribute to the trails' changing narratives and materialities over time.

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“…As such, most people, but especially older adults and other groups prone to severe illness due to a COVID-19 infection, were limited to the confines of their homes, thus limiting their movement and capabilities (Meijering, 2021 ). This stillness within the home, crucially, is not a fixed sedentary or immobile state (see Ratnam and Drozdzewski ( 2020 ) on indoor mobilities, for instance), but is an experience that opens up new movements and agencies. For example, Martin ( 2011 ) and Cocker ( 2009 ) have shown that moments of sudden stillness have the potential to open a space for individuals to reflect and (re)assess their role and patterns of personal functionings – if they choose to: ‘stillness presents a break or pause in the flow of habitual events, whilst illuminating temporal gaps and fissures within which alternative, even unexpected possibilities – for life – might emerge’ (Cocker, 2009 , p. 87).…”

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‘We may be long in the tooth, but it makes us tough’: exploring stillness for older adults during the COVID-19 lockdowns

Osborne

Meijering

2021

Social & Cultural Geography

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Following the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 across the world in 2020, millions of people were reduced in their mobility to hinder the spread of the disease. The lockdown was particularly difficult for older adults, who were deemed 'vulnerable' because many felt unsafe leaving the house and often forced to self-isolate. In this paper, we interpret the lockdowns as a period of prolonged stillness: breaks from everyday practices, including withdrawnness, inefficiency, and retreat. We extend ideas of stillness by integrating the capability approach, which shows how the opportunities and challenges that arise from moments of stillness are dependent on a combination of individual agency and the role of structural or contextual factors. Using the accounts of thirty-eight older adults in the Netherlands and England, we show how the COVID-19 lockdowns established and encouraged different types of stillness which had differing impacts upon the older adults' lives. The effect of the prolonged stillness on these different areas of everyday life is based on individual agency and contextual factors, such as choosing to volunteer or having an adequate internet connection. Thus, our findings contribute to discussions around active ageing and demonstrate that slowing down, and spending more time at home, can provide respite from an otherwise active everyday life.'Puede que seamos viejos, pero eso nos hace fuertes': Explorando la quietud de los adultos mayores durante los encierros de emergencia por el COVID-19 RESUMENTras el brote del SARS-CoV-2 en todo el mundo en 2020, la movilidad de millones de personas se redujo para evitar la propagación de la enfermedad. El encierro fue particularmente difícil para los adultos mayores, a quienes se consideró 'vulnerables' porque muchos se sentían inseguros al salir de la casa y, a menudo, se vieron obligados a aislarse por sí mismos. En este ARTICLE HISTORY

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Detour: Bodies, memories, and mobilities in and around the home

Cited by 18 publications

References 58 publications

The Walking Interview: A Promising Method for Promoting the Participation of Autistic People in Research Projects

The Walking Interview: A Promising Method for Promoting the Participation of Autistic People in Research Projects

Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective

‘We may be long in the tooth, but it makes us tough’: exploring stillness for older adults during the COVID-19 lockdowns

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