Mundane Methods

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 Methodsprovides 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.