Year: 2014
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Walking is a passing over time: the body present in each step’s fall into lack, catching itself on the ground, already future-bound, moving forward with the next step while inscribing the past in the last footprint. For 40 years the English expatriate Tim Robinson (born 1935) has walked the rural coastlines of Western Ireland (the Aran Islands, Connemara and the Burren) producing a substantial body of books, essays and hand-drawn maps that detail his own body’s fleeting engagement with the natural and cultural landscape of these desolate regions. Bringing the historical events of a place into present discourse, Robinson’s mediations and meditations on and of the land disrupt an economy of stable coordinated places to propose other ways of knowing and doing. This chapter is an exploration of how we might think of the rural walker as a performer and how his or her practice traverses the outsides of monolithic meaning inherent in the standardized map. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Source: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Author: Daniel Sack
Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2480865823