Walking in the City as an Experienced Practice

• Authors: Krzysztof T. Konecki

Title variants

PL

Spacerowanie po mieście

Abstracts

PL

Artykuł jest kontemplacyjną eksplikacją procesu spacerowania. Jakie są istotne cechy spacerowania i w jaki sposób osoby spacerujące po mieście tego doświadczają? W opracowaniu wykorzystano kontemplacyjne metody badawcze i dokonano eksplikacji fenomenu chodzenia. Badania opierają się na autooobserwacjach i autoopisach myśli, odczuć ciała i emocji, które pojawiały się podczas spacerów u uczestników projektu badawczego. W artykule opisano cechy zjawiska spacerowania. Najpierw przeanalizowano proces myślenia generowany przez chodzenie po mieście. Następnie omówiono patyczny (ang. pathic) wymiar chodzenia (zwłaszcza nastrój), odczucia cielesne, doświadczanie relacji z innymi oraz refleksje nad życiem i sobą, które są konsekwencją chodzenia/spacerowania.

EN

The paper is a contemplative explication of the walking process. What are the essential features of walking, and how do those who stroll around the city experience walking? We used contemplative research methods and explication of the phenomenon of walking. The research is based on self-observation and self-reporting about the thoughts, body feelings, and emotions that emerge during walks. In the paper, we describe the features of the phenomenon of walking. First, we investigate the minding process generated by walking in the city. Then, we elaborate on the pathic dimension of walking (especially the mood), body feelings (lived body), lived relations, and reflections on life and self that are a consequence of walking.

Keywords

PL

badania kontemplacyjne; chodzenie po mieście; ciało; emocje; autoobserwacje; socjologia ciała; socjologia emocji

EN

contemplative studies; walking in the city; body; emotions; self-observations; sociology of body; sociology of emotions

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 170-201

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Krzysztof T. Konecki

• University of Lodz, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000273703490

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1733-8069.19.4.08

Biblioteka Nauki

28068059