Ethnography in Motion, or Walking With WG Sebald

In fieldwork, the collection of qualitative empirical data is almost exclusively carried out on foot. When we study a ‘field’, it also suggests terrain or an environment that are meant to investigate. Yet actual process investigating something ‘on foot’, walking, seldom reflected in any detail. The aim this essay consider what notion field foot’ might mean for socio-legal scholarship. It focuses ways which author WG Sebald’s walks Suffolk landscape, as portrayed his novel Rings Saturn (1995), provide sensory stimuli meditations themes such passing time and identity. walking traced Claude Lévi-Strauss’ idea bricolage form ‘patchwork’ knowledge formation, but hybridity resulting ‘fieldnotes’ suggest closer affiliation with Walter Benjamin’s constellation.