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Creating Pilgrimage Routes

Matthew Anderson• jane sharkey Lora Aziz• Annemarie Lopez•

Video record of the third On Pilgrimage event in the series focussing on Faith-based, radical and community-led pathsand we are delighted to have Conchita Espino, Director of Mar a Mar, the organisation behind the Camino de Costa Rica,  Matthew R Anderson Gatto Chair of Christian Studies, at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada and author of The Good Walk: Creating New Paths on Traditional Prairie Trails, and Jane Sharkey creator of the Lundy Pilgrimage Trail as guest presenters.

Hosted by Lora Aziz, co-chair of the WTN Arts & Culture Task Force and Annemarie Lopez, from walk · listen · create, bringing panels of thought leaders, trail professionals and walking artists to discuss key themes.

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The World Trails Network

The World Trails Network (WTN) strives to connect the diverse trails of the world to promote the creation, enhancement, and protection of ou
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By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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