Springgay and Truman treat walking as research-creation capable of disturbing the temporal and territorial orders through which dominant histories become naturalised. Their iconic idea is that walking can “unsettle” time by refusing chronological progress narratives and by activating speculation, counter-cartography and anarchiving. The theoretical contribution lies in linking embodied movement to sovereignty, borders, settler colonialism and Black futurity, making the walk a site where epistemic order can be interrupted rather than simply observed. Methodologically, they work through collaborative walking events in which artistic practice, theory and qualitative research remain co-imbricated. The wider bridge is to decolonial methodology and performance studies: the body in motion becomes an instrument for exposing how spatial and temporal regimes are produced, while the walk generates alternative relations among memory, place and possible futures.
