Calibrating the go-along for the Anthropocene Nicholas A. Scott Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada This article contends that the ‘go-along’ contains more technical and ontological agility as a methodology for social research than is often assumed. After distinguishing central spectrums of technical and ontological agility rooted in different research designs and philosophical orientations, I examine how researchers can nourish it while refining the go-along’s moral purpose in the context of environmental and related mobility crises that define the Anthropocene. I argue researchers can cultivate the go-along’s agility and moral purpose by deploying it with quantitative context, comparing go-along case studies, moving past human supremacism and illuminating ecologically just forms of mobility that respect other species of life and their habitats. To show one way that the go-along can accomplish these things, I present two vignettes of cycling in urban Canada, drawing on a mobile video ethnography of cycling, a funded study in sociology, conducted between 2014 and 2018. Keywords: go-along, mobile methods, cycling, cities, Canada This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in International Journal of Social Research Methodology on 27/11/2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645579.2019.1696089 Introduction “Rampant road building has split the Earth’s land into 600,000 fragments, most of which are too tiny to support significant wildlife.” (Carrington 2006) Go-along methodology – whereby scholars accompany their subjects on their journeys and focus on what they say, feel and/or do on the move – is fast becoming one of the most popular ways of 1