ABSTRACT
From architectural plans to particular objects within the home, and from interviews and ethnographic research to textual, visual and statistical analysis, the sources and methods used to study the home are diverse and wide-ranging. Whilst Chapter 1 introduced the reasons why geographers and other researchers have become increasingly interested in studying home, this chapter focuses on how research on past and present homes has been conducted. The chapter has two main aims. First, it introduces methods and sources that have been important in work that analyses the spatiality of home. Second, the chapter aims to encourage you to think about the different ways in which you might want to study home. We explore the sources and methods used to study the material and imaginative geographies of home, and the ways in which the home is politically, socially and culturally constituted, but lived and experienced in personal ways.
