The topological arrangements of Nijmegen’s ‘Walk of the World’: from a military march to ‘martial entrepreneurialism’

Since 1916, the Dutch city of Nijmegen annually organizes Four-Day Marches, world’s largest international walking event, shaping along way. This paper studies ‘coeval becoming’ March and through lens ‘glocal’ topological arrangements, drawing on a ‘wheeling’ racialized assemblage perspective. wheeling, we argue, scripts its four arrangements: as Host, Global Node, Haunted Body, Empty Green. In conclusion, find strong emphasis able-bodies branding, yielding characterization ‘martial entrepreneurialism’.