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A/r/tographic Peripatetic Inquiry and the Flâneur

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The flâneur as is assumed in this inquiry is not the idle explorer of literary imagery, but rather the contemporary, peripatetic artist-scholar. The project focuses on a/r/tographic propositional walking in order to observe the practices of the researchers, namely writing, artmaking, reading, documenting and thinking in movement, as they are experienced in a wayfinding. Such engagements are then documented, interrogated and analysed through artmaking, in this case photography as a framing strategy, and subsequently painting as wayfinding. Such an approach is attentive, generative and in synergy with notions of slow scholarship, sensational pedagogy and a/r/tography. Such an unhurried approach to scholarship, whilst being and becoming in movement, has ramifications for knowledge work in the academy, beyond the executions and translations of this project.

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  1. School of Education, Southern Cross University, Bilinga, QLD, Australia

    Alexandra Lasczik Cutcher

  2. Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Rita L. Irwin

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    Rita L. Irwin

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Lasczik Cutcher, A., Irwin, R.L. (2018). A/r/tographic Peripatetic Inquiry and the Flâneur. In: Lasczik Cutcher, A., Irwin, R. (eds) The Flâneur and Education Research. Palgrave Studies in Movement across Education, the Arts and the Social Sciences. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72838-4_6

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