.top-header{ transform: scale(0.5); transform-origin: top left; width: 200%; } Unstable Installation Series: Springgay, S. and Truman, S.E. (2018) ‘A walking-writing practice: Queering the trail’, in Walking Methodologies in a More-than-Human World: WalkingLab. London and New York: Routledge.

Springgay, S. and Truman, S.E. (2018) ‘A walking-writing practice: Queering the trail’, in Walking Methodologies in a More-than-Human World: WalkingLab. London and New York: Routledge.



Springgay and Truman’s walking-writing practice refuses the separation of movement, thought and inscription. Walking is not preparation for writing, and writing does not begin when experience is converted into text; both operate as a single thinking-in-movement in which concepts form through rhythm, atmosphere, encounter and friction. The chapter’s distinctive operation is propositional rather than instructional. Queering, differentiation, surfacing, activation devices, with-ness, touch and contouring are offered as techniques of relation rather than repeatable procedures. Cameras, sound recorders, altered gaits, reading salons and material actions are valuable only when they alter the event instead of extracting representations from it. This makes the work methodologically rigorous precisely where it rejects formula. Its wider contribution joins feminist research-creation, affect theory, more-than-human geography and situated ethics: walking-writing becomes a practice of response-ability in which knowledge is generated through co-composition, and where collaboration, citation, land, bodies and nonhuman matter remain active participants in the production of thought.