Image-Text-Riffs: Intermezzo Walking-encounter-ings for thinking-doing qualitative research otherwise

Focusing on walking-encounter-ings for thinking-doing-imagining qualitative research otherwise, and composed as a series of intermezzo image-text-riffs, this article enacts artful inquiry as a mode of radical empiricism. It considers what walking-encounter-ings enable as sensorial-embodied-affective inquiry; how they prompt curious and creative experimentation; and how they may release speculative possibilities to imagine alternative nows and better/different futures. Theoretically grounded in feminist materialist praxis, concept-ing, and postcritical inquiry, and empirically inspired by Berlant and Stewart’s The Hundreds, our walking-encounter-ings are intermezzo collaborations with the world which aim to disturb, intervene in, and unsettle boundaries between research and everyday life.