Mundane Methods brings together an exciting array of interdisiplinary approaches to researching the extra-ordinary everyday. Covering themes of materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, the collection is a practical, hands-on guide for students and scholars interested in studying the mundane.

Foreword: making the mundane remarkableLes Back1 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 surfing Lyndsey Stoodley16 Mobile methods for exploring young people’s everynight mobilitiesSamantha Wilkinson

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.