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Citation

Spathopoulou A (2026) Walking and stopping together in the carceral landscape of the Isle of Portland. In: Snellgrove M (ed.) Walking and Leisure: Mobilities, Encounters and Critical Engagements. Abingdon. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003588375

Abstract
This chapter explores the complex interplay between mobility, freedom, and borders as the result of the criminalisation of migration, by focusing on practices and experiences of walking in the carceral context of the Isle of Portland. It discusses the tensions and possibilities at stake in walking together in a context of unfreedom as well as the context of academic research and the boundaries of the so-called ‘field’. Based on ethnographic research on the Isle of Portland from May to September 2024, this chapter approaches these issues methodologically from the situated angle of the embodiment of walking in the concrete experiences of people (including the researcher herself), whose narratives reveal the tensions and slippages between walking for leisure and walking for research, shaping how we relate to one another and ultimately to our own selves. Bringing together abolitionist approaches to walking, leisure, and research, this chapter reflects on the potential within walking together as a ‘mode of engagement’ (da Silva, 2018), and what it might mean to walk towards an abolitionist horizon.