Walking the lines

Olivia Mason (Newcastle University) reflects in this seminar on walking to address broader questions in political geography surrounding power, scale, mobility, embodiment, and knowledge production. Walking still remains a method and practice that has received little attention by political geographers, and this can be traced to a wider absence of discussions of methodology within political geography. Yet the embodied aspects of walking can enable a creative and critical relationship with nature, place, politics and space, reengaging key concepts in political geography such as territory, borders, and the state. Through empirical research conducted on walking trails and with walking groups in the Middle East and North Africa, this seminar explores the situated political geographies of walking and how walking can enable embodied and intimate political geographies to emerge. 

The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the Öresund Comparative Borderland Research Group, and questions from participants. This seminar is held on Zoom and open to the public.

Olivia Mason

Olivia Mason is a lecturer in Geography, with a focus on cultural and political geography. Mason's work sits across cultural, environmental, and political geography, and is broadly centred on mobility politics and resource colonialism, and to date has mostly been focused on Jordan. Olivia Mason is currently working on an ESRC funded research project looking at the resource politics of nature reserves in Jordan.

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About the series

The seminar series Circulation and Locality in Critical Border Studies is arranged by the Öresund Comparative Borderland Research Group, funded by CEMES. 

Technical info 

If you want to ask questions or make comments, please use a headset with a microphone. In addition to the link above, you can participate by calling in, please write to Mia Krokstäde at mia [dot] krokstade [at] cors [dot] lu [dot] se (mia[dot]krokstade[at]cors[dot]lu[dot]se) for information on this.