70.018 - The Not-So-Idle Flaneur: A Metaphor for Knowing, Being Ethical, and Negotiating New Data Production

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this session, four researchers and a discussant explore the figure of the flâneur as a generative metaphor and a prompt for engaging the unknown through embodied engagement, the politics of space, mindful walking, and photographic inquiry. These elements function as qualitative methods and methodologies to gather empirical material in arts-based educational research practices. We explore how the metaphor of and scholarship about the flâneur calls upon researchers to attend to particular factors in research, including: sensorial qualities of place and place-making, urban spaces and places, walking as relational practice, thinking photographically, the creative and narrative qualities of flaneurial walking, and issues of power, gender, and class in research practices.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 3: Challenging Methodological and Representational Boundaries

Chair

• Anna Ryoo, The University of British Columbia

Papers

• Strolling Along With the Flaneur: An Inquiry Into the Concept of Encounter - Marie France Berard, The University of British Columbia

• Inquiry While Being in Relation: Flaneurial Walking as a Creative Practice and Research Method - Elsa Lenz Kothe, The University of British Columbia

• Walking With the Photo Flaneuse: Traversing Inner and Outer Landscapes of Our Lives as Research - Blake Smith

• Mindful Walking: The Serendipitous Journey of Community-Based Ethnography - Yuha Jung, University of Georgia - Athens

Discussant

• Rita L. Irwin, The University of British Columbia