Mundane Methods

Helen Holmes is a Research Fellow in Sociology and the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of ManchesterSarah Marie Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester

• Foreword: making the mundane remarkable1 Introduction: mundane methods and the extra-ordinary everyday Sarah Marie Hall and Helen HolmesPart I Materials and memories2 Opening up material collections: adored, forgotten about, potent and mundane objectsSophie Woodward3 Listening to dress: unfolding oral history methodsAlison Slater4 Memory Work: an approach to remembering and documenting everyday experiencesKarin Widerberg5 Material relationships: object interviews as a means of studying everyday lifeHelen Holmes6: Food for thought? Material methods for exploring food and cookingSarah Marie Hall, Laura Pottinger, Megan Blake, Susanna Mills, Christian Reynolds and Wendy Wrieden Part II Senses and emotions7 The art of the ordinary: observational sketching as methodSue Heath and Lynne Chapman8 Sensing rhythmDawn Lyon9 Everyday ethnographies and the art of eavesdropping: capturing ordinary human-animal encountersBecky Tipper10 Smell walking and mappingChris Perkins and Kate McLean11 Auto-ethnography: managing multiple embodiments in the life drawing classRebecca CollinsPart III Mobilities and motion12 Researching the run: methods for exploring mundane jographiesSimon Cook13 Pedestrian practices: walking from the mundane to the marvellousMorag Rose14 Mobile methods for mundane mobilities: studying mobility scooters in a context of spatial mobility injusticeThomas Birtchnell, Theresa Harada and Gordon Waitt15 Water-based methods: conducting (self) interviews at sea for a surfer's view of surfingLyndsey Stoodley16 Mobile methods for exploring young people’s everynight mobilitiesSamantha Wilkinson

'This edited collection is transformative as a robust methodological toolkit for researchers seeking to clarify and demystify the ‘everyday’. [...] A collection that wonderfully demonstrates that innovation and versatility are key for inspiring the sociological imagination.'Kevin Judge, University of Stirling, The Sociological Review Magazine