Anderson radicalises qualitative interviewing by making geographical context constitutive of knowledge production. “Talking whilst walking” is not merely an interview conducted outdoors; it is a method in which place acts as an active trigger for recollection, association and interpretation. The central operation is the production of “conversations in place”, where researcher and participant move through landscapes that prompt memories and render tacit spatial knowledge speakable. Anderson’s notion of a collaborative collage of knowledge challenges the fiction that testimony can be detached from the material conditions in which it is elicited. The method also reconfigures interviewer–interviewee relations by allowing route, encounter and environmental interruption to participate in the research situation. Its broader theoretical importance lies in joining human geography to embodied epistemology: knowledge is not simply located in subjects and later projected onto space, but co-produced by bodies, movement, material surroundings and conversation. Place becomes an epistemic agent rather than a passive container.
