Pedestrian Provocations: Manifesting an Accessible Future

Morris, Blake; Rose, Morag

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“…In his performative work on counter-tourism, Smith dissects the absurdity of much of what laurajane Smith calls 'authorised heritage discourse ' (2006, 11) and suggests tour guides have much to learn from walking artists. I position myself within this movement which embraces creative walking (Morris and Rose 2019). Exemplars can be found within Billinghurst, Hind, and Smith (2020), Heddon and Turner (2010) and Mock (2009).…”

Section: Walking As Methodsmentioning

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From an aviatrix to a eugenicist: walking with Manchester’s Modernist Heroines

Rose

2021

Gender, Place & Culture

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This article offers an autoethnographic account of developing a multidisciplinary feminist local history project. In particular it focuses on the construction and delivery of a walking tour celebrating 'Manchester's Modernist Heroines' . These were ten women from Greater Manchester, UK, who achieved professional success in the twentieth century. The author evokes ideas of psychogeography and the dérive to produce a tour with collaboration, accessibility and public participation at the heart of its ethos. However the notion of a psychogeographical heritage tour is an oxymoron as the praxis resists essentialist notions of time and space. Additionally, the women featured did not have blue plaques, stately homes or any of the conventional badges of achievement. The focus instead was on resonances, echoes, connections and traces in the everyday landscape. Some, such as Marie Stopes, have a complex and deeply problematic legacy. Geographer Doreen Massey, born in Manchester and one of the subjects, provided inspiration with her progressive vision of space as a simultaneity of 'stories-so-far. ' The traditional heritage tour became reconfigured as something overtly and proudly performative, participatory and fluid. The route and location contributions are anchored in is mutable, with content evolving as new stories are shared. The walk incorporates education, conversation, art and provocation. This is Feminist public pedagogy which uses the pedestrian to examine issues around commemoration, memory, gender and the right to the city. It utilises embodied creative walking methods to uncover the power dynamics that shape Manchester and offer an alternative way to view them.It's unclear, from the pile of rubble and foundation bricks, what used to occupy this square of wasteground in central Manchester. Now, it is an ad hoc car park although today buddleia blossoms outnumber vehicles. It's a banal space, not picturesque or immediately exceptional. The Sir Ralph

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Section: Walking As Methodsmentioning

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From an aviatrix to a eugenicist: walking with Manchester’s Modernist Heroines

Rose

2021

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…As we transition to a discussion of how the preceding literatures infl uence our method of walking battlefi elds and training grounds turned gardens, we consider Blake Morris and Morag Rose's question, "How do we link global places through local walks?" 27 As they declare, there is an importance to actually walking the sites of everyday militarism, not just conceptualizing them. Indeed, we reject the mission of the very same US Army Signal Corps (USASC) that occupied our campus, and instead use walking as a way to access the unassimilable remainder of a university cast as entirely transparent.…”

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Campus "Tours of Duty": Unsettling Everyday Militarisms through Walking

Kirk¹,

Moeller²

2020

Historical Geography

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was closed and transformed into the Western Signal Corps School, a radar and radio training school for the US Army. Th is article analyzes the militarized past and present at the University of California (UC) Davis through our "Militarized Arboretum Walking Tour. " Th e tour comprises multiple stops through the university's Arboretum botanical garden and central campus. By combining archival materials with situated observations on natural and built environments, participants examine how militarized and colonial systems, landscapes, and legacies impact and refl ect ordinary life beyond the spectacle of the battlefi eld or wartime. We analyze how our walking tour, as a historical geographic method, off ers participants novel ways of understanding and analyzing local and global, historical and present, issues of "everyday militarism. " We focus particularly on how the tour "unsettles" the campus environment undergraduate students encounter as a quotidian living and working space, and off er both direct student refl ections and our own pedagogical insights on walking tours as an engaged strategy to teach both the local and transnational history of US empire.

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The Crossings (Part of the Islands of Milwaukee): The Agency of Older Bodies Enacting Pedestrian Crossings

Schaefer¹

2022

Communities, Performance and Practice

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Pedestrian Provocations: Manifesting an Accessible Future

Cited by 3 publications

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From an aviatrix to a eugenicist: walking with Manchester’s Modernist Heroines

From an aviatrix to a eugenicist: walking with Manchester’s Modernist Heroines

Campus "Tours of Duty": Unsettling Everyday Militarisms through Walking

The Crossings (Part of the Islands of Milwaukee): The Agency of Older Bodies Enacting Pedestrian Crossings

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