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Ethnography and housing studies

In: Research Handbook on Housing, the Home and Society

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  • Max Travers

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Despite some promising research studies, ethnography has been an under-used method employed by housing researchers. There are still notable exceptions in major studies, the best conducted in recent years by a journalist, that advance policy arguments. There are also ethnographic programs in universities outside housing studies. However, most studies for government agencies that employ mixed methods have limited engagement with the methodological considerations and reflexive theoretical debates that inform ethnographic research in sociology and anthropology. The purpose of this review is to raise awareness of these issues and to make a case for employing an ethnographic sensibility in any research project about housing.

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  • Max Travers, 2024. "Ethnography and housing studies," Chapters, in: Keith Jacobs & Kathleen Flanagan & Jacqueline De Vries & Emma MacDonald (ed.), Research Handbook on Housing, the Home and Society, chapter 7, pages 96-108, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20205_7
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