Javier Gimeno-Martínez is an associate professor of Design Cultures at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research interest encompasses the crossovers between design scholarship and other disciplines within the humanities and the social sciences. He is the author of the book Design and National Identity (2016).

Introduction; METHODS; Chapter 1. Close Readings I: Structuralism; Chapter 2. Close Readings II: Post-structuralism; Chapter 3. The Life cycle of Objects: Tracking Design; Chapter 4. The Comparative Method: DIfferences and Similarities; Chapter 5. Case Study Research: The Specific and the General; Chapter 6. Designer's Monographs: Fluid authorship; Chapter 7. Oral History: Memories of the Past and the Present; Chapter 8. Ethnography: Groups and Individuals; Chapter 9. Discourse Analysis: Constructing Reality; APPROACHES; Chapter 10. Industry: Economic and Legal Frameworks; Chapter 11. Geopolitics: National Interactions; Chapter 12. Society and Culture: Manners, Morals and Customs; Chapter 13. Gender Studies: Questioning Heteronormativity; Chapter 14. Style: Period, Group and Individual; Chapter 15. The Typological Approach: Categories and Belonging; Chapter 16. Materials and Techniques: Transforming Nature.