@article{Malla_Kholina_Jäntti_2018, title={Urban Hitchhiking: Wandering with Others as a Research Method}, volume={42}, url={https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/69715}, abstractNote={<p>This essay introduces urban hitchhiking, a reflective practice of sharing<br>a walk with strangers, and considers its relevance for research and artistic<br>practice. Drawing from ethnography, psychogeography and performance<br>studies, we frame urban hitchhiking as a score that has ethnographic<br>potential akin to the ethnographic installation (Hartblay 2017) for exploring<br>the complex relationships between people and cityscapes. We demonstrate<br>this with the help of our own accounts of Urban Hitchhiking as two artists<br>who developed the concept and a researcher who practiced it. The essay<br>summarises four perspectives that emerged from our findings: spatiality,<br>performativity, gender, and hospitality. It concludes that the key value of<br>urban hitchhiking lies in its potential to create a setting that we define as an<br>empathetic drift, which turns random encounters into shared acts of trust<br>through which a variety of anthropological questions can be explored.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society}, author={Malla, Tuuli and Kholina, Anna and Jäntti, Lauri}, year={2018}, month={Feb.}, pages={41–51} }