Walking Landscape and Environment

<p><i>Walking Landscape and Environment </i>explores walking as a method of research and practice in the humanities and creative arts emerging from a recent surge of growth in urban and rural walking. This edited collection of essays from leading figures in the field presents an enquiry into and a critique of the methods and results of cutting-edge ‘walking research’. Walking negotiates the intersections between the human self place and space offering a cross-disciplinary collaborative method of research which can be utilised in areas such as ecocriticism landscape architecture literature cultural geography and the visual arts. Bringing together a multitude of perspectives from different disciplines on topics including health and wellbeing disability studies social justice ecology and gender this book provides a unique appraisal of the humanist perspective on landscape. In doing so it challenges Romantic approaches to walking applying new ideas in contemporary critical thought and alternative perspectives on embodiment and trans-corporeality.</p>