Tan, Kai Syng, Büscher, Monika, Freudendal-Pedersen, Malene, Kesselring, Sven and Kristensen, Nikolaj Grauslund (2020) Run Riot! On Mobilities, Life, and Death (of Civilisation), and the Reveries ofRunning Artfully. In, Handbook on Methods and Applications for Mobilities Research. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Abstract
Humanity ‘is heading for collapse’, states Monika Büscher, and it is ‘paramount that ‘WE – a sensible number - search for pathways that avoid collapse’ (2018). If this civilisation that is born of walking is now collapsing, running seems a good move. Thus, I ask: in what ways could ‘running art-fully’ spark flights of thought for us to study ourselves? Could we consider yet other bodies, and minds, such as those that ‘deviate’ from the norm by having ‘atypical’ neurodevelopmental ‘disorders’ use ‘running artfully’ to ‘sense and make sense of the world, to create sensescapes and demonstrate their subjectivity (Büscher, 2010)? What could how, where and why such bodies and minds move — and not move — and how we write about this, open new insights for bodies that are ‘neurotypical’, and not fragile, not aged, not gendered and not racialised, about the world and about themselves? Following in the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s 1778 Reveries of the Solitary Walker, I structure this chapter as ten ‘runs’, and lay down some of the pathways to spark interest for my questions. I invite us to think about ways to extend ‘mobility art’, running in mobilities studies, and how we write about running (artfully) and mobilities. Underlined by examples from my art practice and lived experience as a non-white female with ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia, the chapter is experimental in approac
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