The Non-Secular Pilgrimage: Walking and Looking in Ken Cockburn and Alec Finlay’s The Road North

Tarbuck, Alice; Kotva, Simone

doi:10.3167/cs.2017.290103

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“…This idea reflects Kohák's (1997) contention that "we are irreducibly both dwellers and wayfarers" (cited in Tuedio, 2009, p. 284). Indeed, complementing our focus on a religious procession, Kohák further considers the pilgrim as a metaphor for the relationship between feet and the ground, whereby there is a ‘middle’ between dweller and wayfarer (cited in Tarbuck & Kotva, 2017). Building on these ideas, we unpack below how one can be along paths—can be a wayfarer—but still dwell.…”

Section: Heidegger Dwelling and Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Processional walking: Theorising the ‘place’ of movement in notions of dwelling

Platt

Medway

Steadman

2020

Geographical Research

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This article rethinks dwelling as an active and emergent process through which (re)connections to place are valorised by humans collectively walking with each other in a recursive manner. We revisit Heidegger's notion of dwelling, often criticised for perpetuating enclosure and stasis, by revealing the interconnections between dwelling and movement. Drawing on a two‐century old religious procession—the Manchester and Salford Whit Walks—as an empirical example, our interpretive analysis is centred around three themes. First, we demonstrate how dwelling becomes embodied in performative and collective movement. Second, we examine how dwelling in this context is reinforced through repetition and iteration of that movement. Third, we show how such movement is reliant on repair and maintenance work, which facilitates the (re)emergence of dwelling. We contribute, therefore, empirical insights into how dwelling emerges from a movement through place which, in turn, cements a being in place. Finally, this article has important implications for thinking about how the movement of citizens through processional forms of walking can be a powerful tool for underpinning feelings of dwelling and related concepts of sense of place and civic pride.

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Section: Heidegger Dwelling and Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%