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british bodies are those concerned with health and fitness it s good to walk especially because walking is good for you yet the places through which most people who live in and around belgrave do walk are dominated by cars their own and others moving and stationary and so to leeds a city re made around the car and little london a deprived community through which other people s cars continuously and noisily speed most of the people we ve been speaking with so far in little london don t have cars you could say living where they live they don t really need one one woman yesterday told us that she can walk to the city centre from where she lives in seven minutes but you could also say that living without a car traps people into their inner city location meanwhile other people come and park their cars on their streets drive their cars through their neighbourhoods so fast that one mother told me she won t let her child play out in the cul de sac that s a dead end street on which they live and the urban motorway which separates little london s residents from the city centre can be heard and seen from almost everywhere most of the women we ve spoken to so far walk pretty much everywhere much less because they re being encouraged to walk much more because it s something they simply do in daylight hours at least and or because they have no choice these women feel the spaces through which they walk to be potentially highly problematic but nevertheless walk they do unlike some of the people we have met in lancaster and worcester and also in leicester they are not i think disciplined by governmental injunctions to act sustainably healthily or whatever nor i think are they disciplined entirely by poverty i think many of these women walk because it makes sense to walk they like to walk they want a world in which walking is possible and many of them are engaged in the very beautiful and political act of re making urban space in convivial multi cultural inclusive ways ways which re inhabit and revitalise that space ready for the children they are bringing up there in case i m making little london sound like the kind of place you wouldn t want to go unless you were a qualitative researcher interested in understanding others lives which is not at all my intention let me say for the record here and now that it has so far been easier to meet people in little london than in the other three neighbourhoods in which we ve conducted ethnographic research although that s to some extent a result of the different community mechanisms in the four different places little london has a community centre and community workers who have helped enormously that people have been helpful and friendly and amongst the people we ve spoken to and also more abstractly the feeling in the air is that little london is a dynamic friendly and on the up place in which to live when it comes to cycling my passion and my raison d être in academia the story however is so far a rather sobering one we ve yet to meet someone from little london who uses a bike in the ways which the authorities would like i chatted to one lad who uses his bike a lot like many kids simply to ride around the place he d had one bike a mountain bike stolen from him by a group of older youths a few months back but he d now got another one a bmx he didn t have a lock for it like other kids i ve spoken to the concept of leaving your bike somewhere seems to be an alien one this lack of familiarity with the concept of a lock is one reason why kids don t ride bikes to school whereas i spoke to one lad who skateboarded to school partly because he could carry his skateboard into school with him a couple of weeks ago one youngish woman told us that she wouldn t ride a bike because people would laugh at her she s too old for that cycling is something only kids do someone else told us that the men riding around the area are likely to be drug dealers they ride on the pavements whilst the fluorescent commuters who zip through little london on their way between home and city centre of course ride on the roads it might make sense for those passing through but in little london itself cycling england s mantra of more cycling more safely more often seems almost absurd of course many of the people we ve spoken with so far in little london have more pressing things to think about than how they move around some of the african women i spoke with yesterday described for me how they were living with young children in flats or houses with severe damp inadequate heating and broken windows what s more important that they get their grossly substandard housing improved or that they do their bit by hopping onto bikes still because it s my job and because it s my passion i want to find out how and in what ways cycling might connect with these women s lives and i don t apologise for that so at one point i asked what they would do were they to be given a free bike which was waiting for them to ride away outside most of them just laughed i m guessing that the idea of their leading the lives they lead by bike just makes no sense at all as i say these are blunt generalisations the detail and the nuance will come later what s great for me is finally now to be peering my head up over the fieldwork parapet and realising there just might be quite a lot to say about all this research which we ve spent the past year of our lives undertaking posted in cycling fieldwork leeds walking tagged cycling fieldwork leeds walking leave a comment from lancaster to worcester february 1 2010 by dave horton i can t believe it it s over two months since that last post what s happened well we ve wound down our ethnographic fieldwork in lancaster it s far from finished but we need to move on to worcester we re lucky with lancaster we both live here so although over the next seven or eight months we ll be making frequent trips away to worcester leicester and leeds we ll also keep coming home and home is our field in fact griet will soon be moving into our lancaster ethnographic neighbourhood so will be even more fully in the field than she s been already up until christmas griet continued to do the majority of the ethnographic work with our households in fairfield and abraham heights whilst i continued conducting go alongs and household interviews across the broader lancaster morecambe and heysham district we also started to do more pure ethnographic observation this arose out of a sense that really to understand walking and cycling which is after all a key objective of our research project we need to spend more time actually watching people engaged in the very doing of these practices so for example from cafe windows we have been watching how people on foot negotiate urban space yes that s a poncy way of saying walking but simply saying walking doesn t quite capture what it is that people do if you sit for an hour and watch a section of a pedestrianised city centre as we have been doing in lancaster you start to understand the very different ways in which people move how people walk alone in groups carefully warily briskly boldly you start to see how many different things people on foot do talking goofing around the school kids anyway texting and how some people engage in the work of self presentation as they move checking their appearance through their reflections in shop windows and you start to notice all the details which you might otherwise miss the different ways in which people carry objects and the range of objects they carry the different kinds of clothes they wear and what this might say about how they ve arrived in the city centre by car by bus by bike on foot people s footwear and how this footwear seems to either help or hinder their movement the different ways in which people deal with rain using umbrellas pulling up hoods donning hats or doing nothing we have also been positioning ourselves at junctions in order to observe the flows and rhythms of different modes of mobility as well as to talk to people moving on foot or by bike we concentrated our ethnographic attention particularly on one junction at penny street bridge at the southern entry to lancaster city centre under pressure from cycling england arising from the district s status as a cycling demonstration town this junction has recently been reconfigured in an attempt to make it better for people on bikes part of our mission was to try to understand how the changes have affected cycling and most particularly whether there s been any improvement in the experiences of people riding bikes through the junction it s too complex to give any straightforward answer to that so i ll not try here though obviously i will try somewhere at some point but will instead skip ahead whilst we ll keep coming back to lancaster and to that extent it s the roots of our qualitative inquiry it s time to move on and we have to worcester we d already explored worcester and had some meetings with interested people there last year but our first proper ethnographic foray due for early january got postponed by the snow griet s plane back home from christmas in belgium was cancelled as were trains between lancaster and birmingham so we put our first entry into the field on ermm ice we finally got going in worcester a couple of weeks ago spending a few days walking and cycling around and particularly around our ethnographic neighbourhood in the south west of the city lower wick don t worry i ve ordered a few more worcester walking and cycling maps as this one has now moved well beyond its last legs and into the recycling box lower wick was developed on an area of orchard land near where the rivers teme and severn meet at the end of the 1960s the suburb has a parade of shops along with a pub the maple leaf at its centre you might think that the maple leaf is a strange name for a pub until you realise that all the street names in this part of lower wick have something to do with canada starting from a position of almost complete ignorance we re very interested to see the mobility patterns among lower wick s residents among my assumptions are that the local shops might service many people s everyday needs and that st john s about a mile to the north across from worcester city centre on the west side of the river severn provides a few more options such as a large and new sainsburys but that worcester remains the main centre that said lower wick is located very close to the a4440 which runs around worcester and provides good links to the m5 so for those with access to cars it s relatively easy to get out and go elsewhere and if you want to go shopping but avoid potential congestion in worcester city centre and if you ve got a car you might chose to go about five miles south west to malvern but they re all assumptions still to be tested and also although of course all modes of mobility are connected we re interested rather more in walking and cycling than we are in car travel one interesting feature of lower wick are two particularly long alleyways running through the area these provide pretty direct walking corridors out of the neighbourhood towards st john s but how do people use and experience them we ll be finding out in the weeks to come we saw relatively few people moving around by bike in our three days exploring the area but currently under construction and due to be completed this summer is a walking and cycling bridge over the river severn at diglis bridge a short distance to the east of lower wick the soon to be completed bridge also forms part of an expanding network of off road cycling routes connecting lower wick not only to worcester city centre but to other parts of the district too so we re also interested in the extent to which this improving local walking and cycling infrastructure might impact on people s everyday mobilities so we re back in worcester again tomorrow for another three days of fieldwork with a video camera this time so watch out posted in fieldwork lancaster worcester tagged fieldwork lancaster worcester 1 comment where are we up to november 25 2009 by dave horton whilst griet and i have both got our teeth firmly stuck into the lancaster stint of our year s fieldwork i m also very conscious that some people might be wondering why they ve not heard from us or wondering when we ll be in touch again or perhaps even be wondering if we ve just completely disappeared off the face of lancaster if not the planet one of the difficulties of doing research with all kinds of people in all kinds of ways in four different places is that to be honest it s hard to keep in as regular contact with people as we d like speaking frankly it s one of things i like least about what we re doing although maybe it s only my perception and most people probably aren t actually too bothered i do sometimes feel like i m becoming the kind of professional worker i d really rather not the kind of person who only gets in touch with people when he needs them try though i do i think there is a danger of that and i don t like it and i apologise completely and unreservedly to anyone who experiences my our neglect in that way november continues to be mainly wet windy and generally very grey i fell off my bike on the ice late at night whilst riding in the yorkshire dales that ll teach me for doing daft things at the beginning of the month and have been nursing a cracked rib ever since i m still able to move around by bike and on foot it s mainly laughing which is a problem wow it hurts so not only has november been a bit grey but i ve also had to try hard to be serious which i find rather difficult at the best of times hmmm griet s shouldering more of the ethnographic fieldwork at the moment whilst i m doing more of the household interviews and accompanied journeys or go alongs we re going days at a time without seeing one another and then when we catch up we sort of splurge out our rapidly accumulating experiences our meetings with very many very different people all the stories of moving around lancaster morecambe heysham and further afield which we re so privileged to be being privvy to christmas feels like it s just around the corner and we ve a lot more fieldwork to do before then as well as dealing with all the other aspects of our work meetings writing developing ideas rather unfortunately going into the field doesn t spell the end of the rest of life so that fieldwork sometimes feels like just one more admittedly very big in fact the biggest by some margin ball to juggle we re running a workshop here at lancaster environment centre on the 16th december ethnographies of cycling and have to prepare for that for example but hopefully if you re wondering where we are you ll hear from us soon but if you don t hear from us and you are really wondering where we are then please do drop us a line or give us a ring it d be great to hear from you posted in fieldwork lancaster tagged 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