WaywardHouseWaywardHouse draws on methods from several disciplines without being captive to any of them.
Analytical framing
The core question is usually: how does this system work, and for whom? That requires understanding physical and ecological constraints, economic incentives, and political structures simultaneously — because they shape each other.
Modelling
Where quantitative models appear, they are used as a thinking tool rather than a prediction machine. Models make assumptions explicit. The interesting questions are usually about what the model can’t capture.
Geographic specificity
Abstract analysis often fails at the level of place. The work here tries to stay grounded in how things actually function in specific locations — the landscape, the infrastructure, the institutional history, the people.
Sources
Primary sources where possible. Where secondary sources are used, they’re cited. Contested empirical claims are flagged as such.