Dedication / Introduction: A Wander Through the Scene of British Urban Walking / Part I: The Walker and the Urban Landscape / 1. Longshore Drift: Approaching Liverpool from Another Place by Roy Bayfield / 2. Walking the Dog by Ian Marchant / 3. Incongruous Steps Towards a Legal Psychogeography by Luke Bennett / Part II: Memory, Historicity, Time / 4. Walking Through Memory: Critical Nostalgia and the City by Alastair Bonnett / 5. Selective Amnesia and Spectral Recollection in the Bloodlands by Phil Wood / 6. The Art of Wandering: Arthur Machen’s London Science by Merlin Coverley / 7. Wooden Stones by Gareth E. Rees / Part III: Power and Place / 8. Psychogeography Adrift: Negotiating Critical Inheritance in a Changed Context by Christopher Collier / 9. Confessions of an Anarcho-Flâneuse or Psychogeography the Mancunian Way by Morag Rose / Part IV Practising Psychogeography/Psychogeographical Practices/ 10. Psychogeography and Mythogeography: Currents in Radical Walking by Phil Smith / 11. Developing Schizocartography: Formulating a Theoretical Methodology for a Walking Practice by Tina Richardson / 12. Route Planning a Sensory Walk: Sniffing Out the Issues by Victoria Henshaw / Part V Outsider Psychogeography/ 13. Re-walking the City: People with Dementia Remember by Andrea Capstick / 14. Psychogeography, Anti-Psychologies and the Question of Social Change by Alexander John Bridger / Conclusion: The New Psychogeography / Notes on Contributors / Index
Tina Richardson is an independent scholar and guest lecturer in the
field of psychogeography and urban semiology. She completed her PhD
research at the University of Leeds, developing her own
psychogeographical methodology called schizocartography. She ran
Leeds Psychogeography Group from 2009 to 2013 and worked on a
collaboration exploring the semiotics of the British seaside,
"Reading the Arcades/Reading the Promenades."
Tina has had a number of articles published, including in Spaces
and Flows and disClosure. She has presented a number of conference
papers, for example at ‘Situationist Aesthetics: The SI, Now’
(University of Sussex) and was the invited speaker at the Land2
Symposium "Close to Home: Artists Reconsider the Local" (Leeds).
Tina acted as co-editor for Parallax and associate editor for
Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and Extraurban
Studies. She featured on Radio 4 as a psychogeographer and in the
local press in regards to a recent psychogeographical talk she
presented on the musician Nick Drake.
Tina runs a blog dedicated to Psychogeography and Cultural Theory
called Particulations: http://particulations.blogspot.co.uk/ which
she has been writing since 2009, in addition to a website oriented
around her own form of psychogeography: www.schizocartography.org
and a research-based twitter account @concretepost.
Academic and/or non-academic, [psychogeography] sprawls across
traditional boundaries of subject matter in a way that I find
delightful; I loved this book for its diversity, quirkiness, and
thoughtfulness … [This book] is rich, witty, thought provoking. For
any therapist who embraces a social constructionist view of the
self, it is a wonderful read!
*Therapy Today*
This book is full of unanticipated gems […] it’s an enlightened
celebration of the breadth of the contemporary psychogeographical
practice.
*Slow Boat Blog*
Walking Inside Out . . . [is] a diverse and lively assortment of
literary and more scholarly essays that constitutes a collective
intervention in debates about the continued valence of walking as a
species both of politics and aesthetics. . . .[This book] open[s]
up an important space for debating the political and aesthetic
value of walking in cities and their fringes.
*CritCom: a Forum for Research & Commentary on Europe*
“[A] diverse and lively assortment of literary and more scholarly
essays that constitutes a collective intervention in debates about
the continued valence of walking as a species both of politics and
aesthetics, [Walking Inside Out] open[s] up an important space for
debating the political and aesthetic value of walking in cities and
their fringes in an epoch of rampant, even epidemic
gentrification.”
*Europe Now*
"Tina Richardson is one of the key figures in contemporary British
psychogeography and urban aesthetics. [F]or those of us interested
in psychogeography she has provided a map of where we have come
from and some pointers towards where we are going."
*Psychogeographic Review*
Editor Tina Richardson skillfully guides the reader through the
diverse field of British psychogeography through a useful
introduction – perfectly appropriate for both readers who are new
to the subject as well as those with prior exposure to it. . .
.Walking inside out is a focused, enthused, engaging and diverse
resource full of memorable narratives and transferable insights. It
is a book that testifies to the rich diversity of ways of walking,
the multiplicity of walking styles and motivations, and the depth
of a tradition that is very much alive both in and outside the
British Isles. Equally theoretical and substantive, playful and
serious, and balanced in its attention to methodological and
counter-cultural possibilities, Walking inside out will lead
readers to wonder, and wander, through the vast field of
psychogeography.
*Social & Cultural Geography*
Richardson’s book testifies to the richness and profusion of
British urban walking today, by turns serious and light-hearted,
intensely focussed, and freely rambling. More than armchair
philosophy, these essays—by a motley rabble of loiterers,
strollers, academics, writers, agitators and wastrels—make me want
to depart my desk and head out into the city, leaving all maps
behind.
*Will Buckingham, School of Humanities, De Montfort
University.*
I read this book in a single sitting, flying from Singapore to
London. By the time we were over Afghanistan, I was hooked.
Stumbling into the London streets from Heathrow Airport, I needed
to walk into British pyschogeography, which as this collection
shows, blends British grittiness and continental influences,
creating something vital.
*James D. Sidaway, Professor of Political Geography, National
University of Singapore*
A bumper compendium, bubbling with insights and oddments, and a
multiplicity of perspectives, Walking Inside Out accentuates the
vibrancy of British psychogeography, its varied theories, walking
styles, pathways, motivations. It will inspire you to stride out,
to wallow in this weird Island, looking askance at its
incongruities, vestiges, banalities, security apparatus, rural
idylls, shabby seafronts, and the less trodden ways.
*Tim Edensor, Cultural Geographer, Manchester Metropolitan
University*
Walking Inside Out is more than a history of British
psychogeography: it is a compelling drift through the conceptual
space of the discipline as practised in the contemporary cultural
and social situation. It points to psychogeography’s possible
futures in all their theoretical complexity, playful
subversiveness, political and therapeutical potential. An essential
addition to the growing corpus of psychogeographical
literature.
*James Lawrence, Writer, poet and translator*
[T]he strength of this collection is to offer an overview of
contemporary British psychogeography while also practicing it. This
means that the essays presented in the collection are not only
about psychogeography, but psychogeographic in the first place, in
that they embody (different conceptions of) psychogeography even
before reflecting upon it.
*Parallax*
As one of the first academic surveys of the heterogeneous field of
psychogeography as it is practiced across the United Kingdom in the
present day, Walking Inside Out is an ambitious undertaking …
Bringing together both recognizable and established names in the
field alongside contributions from emerging researchers and
practitioners, Walking Inside Out demonstrates just how thoroughly
the appeal of the ‘toolbox’–like quality of psychogeography
(Richardson 2015: 3) cuts across disciplines.
*Journal of Urban Cultural Studies*
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