Publications

The Walking Library is an on-going creative research project. Below are a selection of publications we have generated through the project and make available here as open access, or in pre-publications versions, depending on rights.

• Dee Heddon and Misha Myers, ‘Pedestrian pedagogy: The Walking Library for Women Walking’, Journal of Public Pedagogies, 2019(4),pp. 108-117. Open Access
• Deirdre Heddon & Misha Myers, ‘Walking Library for Women Walking’, in Walking, Landscape and Environment eds. Pippa Marland et al. (London: Routledge, 2020). Open access text available from May 2021 Pre-publication version
• Misha Myers & Dee Heddon, ‘, Walking Library for a Wild City final‘, Performance Research, 23(7), 2019, 48-49.
• Misha Myers & Dee Heddon, ‘The Walking Library Collections: The convivial logic of a library made for walking’,  Interartive, 2018.
• Deirdre Heddon and Misha Myers, Walking Library Mobilising Books PR2017. Performance Research, 22(1), 2017, pp. 32-48.
• Misha Myers and Deirdre Heddon, On Libraries Introduction, 22(1), 2017, pp. 1-8.
• Deirdre Heddon and Misha Myers, Stories from the Walking Library‘, Cultural Geographies, 21(4), 2014, pp. 639-655.
• Deirdre Heddon and Misha Myers, ‘A Library to Walking into the Forest’, The Ecologist, 3 July, 2020.

The Walking Library has also featured in a number of broadcasts.

The Art of Now: Women Who Walk’, BBC R4, 8 Oct 2018

‘Er Outdoors: Women in the Open – Stories of Walking’, Resonance FM, 11 July 2016

‘Making Conversations’, Resonance FM, 10 Nov 2015

The Janice Forsyth Show, BBC Radio Scotland, 17 February 2015

 ‘The Walking Library: an interview by My Bookcase’

‘Talking Walking’, Museum of Walking, 2012

The Walking Library has featured in a number of print publications authored by others.

• A brief history of taking books along for the ride’, Smart News, Smithsonian
• Bree Hadley, ‘Mobilising the mobilities paradigm in drama, theatre and performance studies: Potentials, politics and pitfalls’, Australasian Drama Studies, 69, 2016, pp. 7-28.
• Blake Morris, ‘The Walking Library: relating the landscape’, Green Letters, 21.3, 2017, pp. 287-299.
• Theron Schmidt, ‘What Kind of Work Is This? Performance and Materialisms in the Gallery’, Performance Paradigm: Performance, Choreography, and the Gallery, 13, 2016, pp. 7-28, http://performanceparadigm.net/index.php/journal/article/view/191/210
• Victoria Hunter, Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance, London: Routledge 2015.
• Lyons, C. Crosby, ‘Going on a Field Trip: Critical Geographical Walking Tours and Tactical Media as Urban Praxis in Sydney, Australia’, M/C – Media and Culture, 2018, 21.4 [online].
• Maggie O’Neill, Walking Borders, Leverhulme Trust
• Mary Paterson, ‘Don’t mistake publications for endpoints: a walking interview with Deirdre Heddon’, Dance and Performance Training, 7.2, 2016, pp. 302-322.
• Noora Pyyry, ‘From psychogeography to hanging‐out‐knowing: Situationist dérive in nonrepresentational urban research’, Area, 08 June 2018
• Hilary Ramsden, ‘Walking & talking: making strange encounters within the familiar’, Social & Cultural Geography, 2017, pp. 53-77.
• Phil Smith, Walking’s New Movement, Devon: Triarchy Press, 2015.
• Phil Smith, Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance: A Handbook, Basingstoke: Macmillan International Higher Education, 2018.
• Stephanie Springgay, Sarah E. Truman, ‘A Transmaterial Approach to Walking Methodologies: Embodiment, Affect, and a Sonic Art Performance’, Body & Society, 23, 4, 2017, pp. 27-58
• Stephanie Springgay, Sarah E. Truman, Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World: WalkingLab, New York: Routledge, 2017.
• Fiona Wilkie, ‘Sited Conversations’ in Moving Sites: Investigating Site-specific Dance, ed. Victoria Hunter, London: Routledge, 2015.
• Robbie Zachariah Wilson, Towards a Ludic Ecology: Popular Participatory Peripatetic Performance. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent, 2018.