Mason and colleagues reposition walking as a political method rather than a neutral means of accessing field sites. Their intervention treats movement through territory as a mode of knowledge production entangled with sovereignty, property, gender, race, border regimes, protest and uneven mobility. The central theoretical contribution is to expose the sedentary assumptions of political thought: territorial power is often analysed from fixed positions even though it is enacted, resisted and sensed through movement. Methodologically, the paper is plural rather than prescriptive, assembling psychogeographic, feminist, postcolonial and ethnographic walking practices to show how embodied routes reveal political relations that textual or stationary approaches can miss. Its critical force lies equally in refusing the romantic idea that walking is universally free or emancipatory; access to movement is itself politically distributed. The work bridges political geography, mobilities research and embodied epistemology by making the walking body an instrument through which scale, exclusion and territorial power become empirically legible.
URBANISM MEETS ART