Dear colleges in the Walking community, we invite you join our next Research Forum, om Wednesday 11 September 1 PM – 3 PM GMT

This Research Forum offers presentations of three projects all dealing with gender and walking, but with three quite different approaches and methods. We will be hearing about the every-day lives of women domestic workers in Mumbai and Lima, the walk to work for women from low-income backgrounds in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam, and how young men in secondary city locations in South Africa and the United Kingdom experience and practice journeys on foot.

The Research Forum aims to display a rich variety of aspects pertaining to gender aspects of being on foot.

Program

Moderator: Maja Karoline Rynning, The Institute of Transport Economics, Norway
Welcome and introduction: Henrik Nolmark, VREF director

Presentations:

Preliminary findings on walking as an asset for women from low income backgrounds in Nairobi and Dar-Salaam
Presenter: Stephano Nalaila, Mzumbe University, Tanzania.
Discussant: Himanshu Burte, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India

Young men walking in secondary cities: reflections from Mossel Bay, South Africa, and Worthing, UK
Presenter: Bulelani Maskiti, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Sam Clark, Transaid
Discussant: Stephano Nalaila, Mzumbe University, Tanzania 

Work-walks and walkscapes: Women domestic workers’ lived experiences  and contexts of mobility in Lima and Mumbai 
Presenter: Himanshu Burte, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
Discussant: Bulelani Maskiti, University of Cape Town, South Africa

– Plenary Discussion