Book review: Place in research. Theory, methodology, and methods

David Clarke reviews the book 'Place in research. Theory, methodology, and methods', by Eve Tuck and Marcia McKenzie (Routledge, 2015, ISBN 978-0-415-62672-9).

As a white, middle class male from the UK I am perhaps not best placed to review this book. Or, maybe I am. Perhaps, as an early career researcher I am exactly the kind of audience that should be engaging with ideas of decolonising place in my research. Perhaps, surprisingly, critical understandings of place are uncommon in research methodology in environmental and outdoor education. Flick through the last 15 years of contributions in this or any related journal and it is not long before place is mentioned in theoretical terms and/or as a site of research, but it is not a default consideration in research methodology like, say, participants are. Eve Tuck and Marcia McKenzie would like that to change. Their book, Place in Research, asserts that place matters for research methodology, perhaps more so today than ever before.