About the Book
Mundane Methods is an innovative and original collection which will make a distinctive methodological and empirical contribution to research on the everyday. Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary approaches it provides a practical, hands-on approach for scholars interested in studying the mundane and exploring its potential. Divided into three key themes this volume explores methods for studying: materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion; with encounters, relationships, practices, spaces, temporalities and imaginaries cross-cutting throughout. In doing so, it draws on the work of a range of established and up-and-coming scholars researching the everyday, including human geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, urban planners, cartographers, and fashion historians. With empirical examples, practical tips, ethical considerations, and exercises.
Contents
Chapter 1:Introduction
Part I: Materials and Memories
Chapter 2: Opening up material collections: adored, forgotten about, potent and mundane objects
Chapter 3: Listening to dress: unfolding oral history methods
Chapter 4: Memory Work: an approach to remembering and documenting everyday experiences
Chapter 5: Material relationships: object interviews as a means of studying everyday life
Chapter 6: Food for thought? Material methods for exploring food and cooking
Part II: Senses and Emotions
Chapter 7: The art of the ordinary: observational sketching as method
Chapter 8: Sensing rhythm
Chapter 9: Everyday ethnographies and the art of eavesdropping: capturing ordinary human-animal encounters
Chapter 10: Smell walking and mapping
Chapter 11: Auto-ethnography: managing multiple embodiments in the life drawing class
Part III: Mobilities and Motion
Chapter 12: Researching the run: methods for exploring mundane jographies
Chapter 13: Pedestrian practices: walking from the mundane to the marvellous
Chapter 14: Mobile methods for mundane mobilities: studying mobility scooters in a context of spatial mobility injustice
Chapter 15: Water-based methods: conducting (self) interviews at sea for a surfer's view of surfing
Chapter 16: Mobile methods for exploring young people's everynight mobilities