Manchester University Press Mundane Methods: Innovative Ways to Research the Everyday (Volume I)

Researching the everyday is more important and significant now than ever before: beyond a fad or cultural currency, understanding the mundane is key to critical and conceptual social science. But what is the everyday, and how do we research it? Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary approaches the collection provides a practical, hands-on approach for scholars interested in studying the mundane and exploring its potential. Outlining innovative and original methods for studying materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, Mundane Methods provides a distinctive methodological and empirical contribution to research on the everyday. Collecting research from a range of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection offers a range of truly unique methods from loitering, to smell-mapping, to memory work which promise to embrace and retain the vitality of research into everyday life. From the Inside Flap Researching the everyday is more important and significant now than ever before: beyond a fad or cultural currency, understanding the mundane is key to critical and conceptual social science. But what is the everyday, and how do we research it? Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary approaches the collection provides a practical, hands-on approach for scholars interested in studying the mundane and exploring its potential.Outlining innovative and original methods for studying materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, Mundane Methods provides a distinctive methodological and empirical contribution to research on the everyday. Collecting research from a range of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection offers a range of truly unique methods from loitering, to smell-mapping, to memory work which promise to embrace and retain the vitality of research into everyday life. From the Back Cover Researching the everyday is more important and significant now than ever before: beyond a fad or cultural currency, understanding the mundane is key to critical and conceptual social science. But what is the everyday, and how do we research it? Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary approaches the collection provides a practical, hands-on approach for scholars interested in studying the mundane and exploring its potential. Outlining innovative and original methods for studying materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, Mundane Methods provides a distinctive methodological and empirical contribution to research on the everyday. Collecting research from a range of established and up-and-coming scholars, this collection offers a range of truly unique methods - from loitering, to smell-mapping, to memory work - which promise to embrace and retain the vitality of research into everyday life. About the Author Helen Holmes is a Research Fellow in Sociology and the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester; Sarah Marie Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester