To better understand walking practices and the power relations informing them, Mattias Karrholm and colleagues argue for a relational methodology and metalanguage. In the process, they propose a threefold approach: (a) identify different walking assemblages; (b) investigate how diverse types of walking assemblage relate in series; and (c) study how certain objects can gather or bind series together and act as boundary objects. In this article, we explore the worth of that approach, drawing on research interviews held over 2015-16 with residents from Wollongong, Australia, during a period when their municipal government was implementing a walkable city strategy. Here, we analyse participants' conversations with us for what they reveal about walking types, walking assemblages, interseriality, objects of passage, and boundary objects - five terms used by Karrholm et al. to interrogate urban walking. Our work suggests that participants are adept at gauging the constant transformations that characterise their walks. This narrative evaluative capacity is, perhaps paradoxically, both compelling and mundane and suggests that participants make sense of a range of meanings from complex social and spatial dynamics and do so in ways that highlight privilege and disadvantage in the city. These findings have wider relevance for those interested in walking and mobilities studies and methodologies.

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行走的关系方法：方法论、元语言和权力关系

为了更好地理解步行实践和告知他们的权力关系，马蒂亚斯·卡尔霍尔姆 (Mattias Karrholm) 及其同事主张采用关系方法和元语言。在这个过程中，他们提出了一种三重方法：(a) 识别不同的步行组合；(b) 调查不同类型的步行组合如何串联；(c) 研究某些对象如何将系列聚集或绑定在一起并充当边界对象。在本文中，我们探讨了这种方法的价值，借鉴了 2015-16 年对澳大利亚卧龙岗居民进行的研究访谈，当时他们的市政府正在实施步行城市战略。在这里，我们分析参与者与我们的对话，以了解他们揭示的有关步行类型、步行组合、串连性、通道对象、和边界对象 - Karrholm 等人使用的五个术语。询问城市步行。我们的工作表明，参与者善于衡量表征他们步行的不断变化。这种叙事评估能力，也许矛盾的是，既引人注目又平凡，并表明参与者从复杂的社会和空间动态中理解一系列含义，并以突出城市特权和劣势的方式来这样做。这些发现对那些对步行和机动性研究和方法感兴趣的人具有更广泛的相关性。既引人注目又平凡，并表明参与者从复杂的社会和空间动态中理解一系列含义，并以突出城市特权和劣势的方式来做。这些发现对那些对步行和机动性研究和方法感兴趣的人具有更广泛的相关性。既引人注目又平凡，并表明参与者从复杂的社会和空间动态中理解一系列含义，并以突出城市特权和劣势的方式来做。这些发现对那些对步行和机动性研究和方法感兴趣的人具有更广泛的相关性。