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Professor Claire Lindsay has been awarded a Research Project Grant of £374, 040 from the Leverhulme Trust for her project Women Walkers in Latin America. Professor Lindsay’s research on cultures, experiences and narratives of travel in Latin America has been previously funded by the British Academy and the AHRC and published in three monographs, among other publications, including Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America (Routledge 2010) and Magazines, Tourism and Nation-Building in Mexico (Palgrave Macmillan 2019). 

This Leverhulme Trust grant will fund a 3-year project (2025-2028) to produce the first cultural history of walking women in modern Latin America. Professor Lindsay’s co-applicants are historians Professor Matthew Brown (University of Bristol) and Professor Patricia Anderson (Universidad del Belgrano, Argentina); a research student and a post-doctoral research assistant will also be appointed to the team. Using a unique combination of historical, cultural studies and peripatetic ethnographic research methods, they will document, analyze and investigate women walkers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico past and present. 
Professor Lindsay’s project challenges an influential but fundamentally masculinist and ableist paradigm of pedestrianism that understands walking as a practice of unfettered movement and productive distraction. Women Walkers in Latin America will consider heterogeneous modalities of women’s ‘foot-work’ in the region, in diverse arenas such as artistic practice, leisure, migration, and sport. The project will demonstrate how gender makes a difference to walking in modern Latin America and aims to establish the value of diverse pedestrianisms for feminist history and politics.