In this paper, we present findings from interviews conducted with people who walk dogs. Drawing on new walking studies and animal geographies as our theoretical framework, adopt the view that is more than just walking; it often a highly sensual complex activity. We argue dogs represents potentially important cultural space for making sense of human–animal relations. show how personalities both dog walker can shape not only practices, but also bond. contend significant arena where relations...

Abstract Cities have always been hubs for celebration and festivity, bringing people together to escape temporarily from the mundane nature of everyday routines. Festivals often bridges between places, linking personal geography with collective experiences therefore increasingly interest cultural geographers. However, festivals also social, economic political aspects that are constructed by societal influences time place. This article presents some key debates ongoing in academic literature...

This article explores consumers’ experiences of place atmospheres through a study into football matches, context in which atmosphere is pertinent. While existing marketing literature concerning atmospherics largely conceptualises as controllable, singular, and confined to the consumption environment experience under investigation, we instead contribute more spatially temporally porous theorisation. Drawing insights from both consumer research geography surrounding affect, embodiment...

The field of events management has been critiqued for being overly focused on operational and managerial concerns to the detriment critical analysis power representation, which equality, diversity, inclusion (EDI) is an important aspect. This paper reports audit four leading journals over period 2011–2021 assess current state play in relation engagement with EDI issues consider whether this critique remains justified. After screening, 49 articles were included. Findings reveal that a...

This article explores performances of intensive motherhood in the context taking children to visit Manchester’s Christmas markets. Much sociological literature has studied within safe, managed space home. Less work, however, examined urban spaces. Through in-depth interviews with 16 mothers recent experience their markets, we highlight how such festive experiences surface tensions display. Intensive is grounded shielding from risk, yet our findings reveal visiting city-centre during period...

Abstract This paper addresses how walking‐with an infant makes mothering worlds legible. Employing the active verb ‘worlding’, it illustrates contributes to emergent, embodied and relational nature of as a story in motion we make sense becoming mother. The walking this study takes place through (sub)urban landscapes, negotiate our maternal bodies these spaces, at very particular moment time (COVID‐19 lockdowns), is imbricated worldings. Walking‐with used not only explain interembodiment...

Amid a resurgence of domestic craft, this article contends that everyday creative practices women are part placemaking processes in the city. Specifically, research focuses on Liverpool Northwest England, so-called (and self-proclaimed) ‘centre universe’. This utilized in-depth semi-structured interviews with members knitting groups and city centre Women’s Institute to explore how use craft practice create sense self attachment place. The idea gathering is enduring, examined here understand...

Abstract This paper considers how Liverpool's year of European Capital Culture (ECoC) with a focus on altering the image and perceptions place allowed heightened sense awareness local identity. Drawing data gathered through ethnographic approaches at small‐scale arts workshop in city centre considering visual imagery, stereotypes myths city, argues that identity are relationally different. Using theories performativity performance it finds people, due to rebranding concerted efforts...

Purpose The UK city of culture (UKCoC) scheme developed out Liverpool’s year as European Capital Culture in 2008 and is synonymous with urban renewal. purpose this paper to examine the challenges bidding for scheme. Design/methodology/approach authors conducted semi-structured telephone interviews bid team members from four five short-listed cities 2021 award. Respondents were situated across country and, at time, finalising their Stage 2 bids. Thematic analysis was analyse responses....

This paper offers a critical analysis of how urban placemaking as top-down or bottom-up action, involving organizational intervention facilitation, is typified by problematic angles approach. Instead, we evidence flat ontological perspective, entering into assemblages to feel the chaotic and ever-changing forces that make places. Specifically, use Deleuzoguattarian lens refrain employ transversal inherent within an event—the Manchester Salford Whit Walks, Church England procession has been...

In this article we disrupt extractivist and privileged individualised knowledge production by decentering the human ‘I’ to ‘we’ through storying. By entangling more-than-human bodies, is re-configured a posthuman praxis of an iterative metamorphosing Baglady storying collective. Starting with provocation locking unlocking, story as way make sense political ethical affectivities that interrupt everyday materialities spatialities. From here, speculate movements response-ability...

Drawing on the Manchester and Salford Whit Walks, a Church of England Whitsuntide procession, this research adopts della Dora's concept infrasecular to interpret interstitiality religious or civic nature leisure experiences in urban context. Processional walking at originated as pre-industrial custom that was simultaneously practice. However, with decline religion meanings Walks have changed number dimensions. Using lens geography, explored ways which these remade sacred space secular city...

Abstract This article rethinks dwelling as an active and emergent process through which (re)connections to place are valorised by humans collectively walking with each other in a recursive manner. We revisit Heidegger's notion of dwelling, often criticised for perpetuating enclosure stasis, revealing the interconnections between movement. Drawing on two‐century old religious procession—the Manchester Salford Whit Walks—as empirical example, our interpretive analysis is centred around three...