Ethnography and housing studies

Max Travers

Chapter 7 in Research Handbook on Housing, the Home and Society, 2024, pp 96-108 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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