Walking together is a seemingly unassuming, common way to socialize – we tend to take it for granted. But these ordinary steps, if we pay attention to them, can reveal much about how we relate to one another, how we are perceived by others and how public space feels different depending on who we are. 

Drawing on fieldwork in post-apartheid South Africa on foot, this book shows how walking can be a way of thinking together and learning from each other. Focusing on race and gender, the author traces how public space is never equally open to all: ease for some means vigilance for others. Walking makes these differences felt – in pace, posture, and attention. 

Bridging ethnography and philosophy, Walking Together rethinks walking as both a paradigmatic social practice and a research method. It challenges idealized notions of shared experience and offers an attentive, accountable way of working with difference rather than smoothing it over. A fresh and accessible take on shared movement and knowledge, this book will interest readers in anthropology, philosophy, urban studies, and anyone curious about the politics of everyday life in public space.