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Writers’ Circle – 39 Steps

Writers Circle - 39 Steps

An “Invitation Only” event for shortlisted authors in the 39 Steps writing competition with VIP guests.

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2025-06-22 13:00
2025-06-22 13:00

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Is it possible to tread lightly on our world?

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Discovering creativity while walking Britain’s Postal Paths

Alan Cleaver is an author from Whitehaven, Cumbria UK whose latest book, The Postal Paths, looks at the routes walked by rural postmen and postwomen from the 1850s until the 1970s (vans are now used for all delivery routes in Britain) and the lives of the posties who walked them. Alan will be on a

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pedestrian acts

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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