ABSTRACT

The chapter aims to present research objectives and methods for ecocritical geopolitics, which, being a multidisciplinary approach, needs a multidisciplinary methodological and analytical toolkit. In order to offer researchers a point of departure, the chapter introduces some methodological notes, without going into the different research methods in depth. After highlighting how the meaning of each text is produced within different sites, the chapter provides some guidance on textual and discourse analysis; it also offers some notes about some interpretative categories used by the geographical discourse, such as place, landscape, territory. Lastly, it introduces audience studies, which should be made using tools typical of sociology and ethnography, such as surveys, focus groups, and netnography.