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Walking/Writing, Sensing Side-By-Side: A Decolonial Inquiry
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Walking/Writing, Sensing Side-By-Side: A Decolonial Inquiry

Ali Black, Catherine Manathunga and Shelley Davidow
Walking as Critical Inquiry, pp.231-253
Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research, 7, Springer Nature
2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29991-9_14
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Sensory ethnography Decolonial inquiry Deep listening Arts-based inquiry Walking methodologies Co-existing with environment
Engaging with sensory ethnography, we are walking on the beach and writing in embodied ways. Employed in a neo-liberal institution, our episodic travelling together along the seashores is inviting new ways of being, seeing and thinking in and beyond academe. We are interested in cultivating relationship, inquiring contemplatively and aesthetically, wandering/wondering, walking/working, and writing/representing lives/worlds/words. We are committed to processes of sensory learning, to creatively piecing/peace-ing together entangled sensory moments and meanings. In a spirit of listening and reconciliation, we are wondering deeply about the First Nations peoples who have walked these beaches since time immemorial. We are following pathways suggested by Truman and Springgay (The Routledge International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research. Routledge, pp. 259–267, 2016) and tracing how walking is a radical and critical art of inquiry that opens spaces for creativity, de-familiarises our bodies, blends visual and non-visual senses, (re)creating belonging, place, feelings and relationships through movement. We reflect on our walking/writing as a source of resistance; a sensory archive; an inquiry of motion and meaning-making. Using memoir-like writing and arts-based artefacts we are blurring the boundaries between creative inquiry, activism, and everyday life, and attending to issues of settler colonisation, and gender, resisting commodification and quantification, and creating spaces for restorative, responsive and decolonial walking/writing expression.

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