1. Introduction / Pamela Shurmer-Smith
2. trouble with theory / Pamela Shurmer-Smith
3. Humanistic and behavioural geography / Carol Ekinsmyth and Pamela Shurmer-Smith
4. Marx and after / Pamela Shurmer-Smith
5. Poststructuralist cultural geography / Pamela Shurmer-Smith
6. Feminist cultural geography / Carol Ekinsmyth
7. Postcolonial geographies / Pamela Shurmer-Smith
8. Selecting topics for study / Katy Bennett, Carol Ekinsmyth and Pamela Shurmer-Smith
9. Methods and methodology / Pamela Shurmer-Smith
10. Extensive methods: using secondary data / Tim Brown
11. Using archives / Kevin Hannam
12. Reading texts / Pamela Shurmer-Smith
13. Participant observation / Katy Bennett
14. Interviews and focus groups / Katy Bennett
15. Field observation: looking at Paris / Louis Shurmer-Smith and Pamela Shurmer-Smith
16. Feminist methodology / Carol Ekinsmyth
17. Coping with archival and textual data / Kevin Hannam
18. Handling case studies / Katy Bennett and Pamela Shurmer-Smith
19. Representation of research: creating a text / Katy Bennett and Pamela Shurmer-Smith
20. Concluding thoughts / Pamela Shurmer-Smith.