Dear colleagues in the VREF Walking Community, we hope to see you at our next online Research Forum, where presentations, knowledge exchange and discussions will focus on:
Walking Practices and Behaviours through a Gender Lens
This Research Forum offers presentations of three projects 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
Hope to see you 11 September!
Sincerely,
David Lindelöw, VREF Coordinator of the Walking as a Mode of Transport Program
Jane Summerton VREF Scientific Advisor
Karin Henriksson, VREF Communications Officer
Do you have questions, thoughts or ideas related to the Walking program? Do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]
