Warren exposes the hidden universal subject embedded in much walking-method literature. Against accounts that assume walking to be inherently pleasurable, liberatory or democratising, she shows how faith, ethnicity, gender, legal insecurity, caring responsibilities and social visibility alter both mobility and the conditions under which research can occur. The methodological contribution is therefore a pluralisation of the walking interview itself: participants may walk independently, with companions, in friendship groups, with children or partners, while classroom mapping can substitute for street-based mobility when walking is inappropriate. The failure of participant-led routing automatically to redistribute power is one of the article’s most important findings; research authority, generational hierarchy and cultural expectations continue to operate inside allegedly emancipatory formats. Warren converts methodological discomfort into evidence. The wider bridge is to feminist and postcolonial epistemology, where every method contains an implicit body, social norm and geography of access. Immobility, refusal and withdrawal become legitimate forms of spatial knowledge.