Narrating the search for a methodology of the household

This article traces the search for a household-centered methodology amid global crises, grounded in feminist traditions of reflexive and narrative scholarship. We integrate ourselves consciously into the research process while drawing on feminist analyses of the household as a key site in socio-economic transformation and the reproduction of financialized capitalism. We propose four methodological moves. First, we dismantle conventional boundaries by treating the household as a complex nexus of social, cultural, and economic relations embedded in wider systems. Second, we move beyond scarcity-based explanations to foreground daily practices of social reproduction, including care work and resource flows that sustain capitalism. Third, we recognize harm by mapping circuits of violence, deprivation, and injustice that consolidate power. Fourth, we theorize household agency as dynamic, capable of both reproducing and resisting inequality. Together, these moves position the household as a crucial site of critique, resistance, and potential social transformation in today’s crisis-ridden global system