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Area of Science:

  • Social Sciences
  • Human Geography

Background:

  • Uncertainty is a significant topic in social sciences, particularly anthropology, science studies, and sociology.
  • Geographical scholarship offers unique perspectives on understanding and addressing uncertainty.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the contributions of geographical scholarship to transdisciplinary debates on uncertainty.
  • To explore how geographers engage with uncertainties in contemporary issues.

Main Methods:

  • Discussion of how geographers analyze uncertainties related to neoliberal transformation, disease, resource conflict, climate change, and knowledge-power-justice struggles.
  • Integration of geographical concepts like scale, power, spatiality, place, and human-environment relations.

Main Results:

  • Geographical scholarship enriches transdisciplinary understanding of uncertainty.
  • Identifies how uncertainty arises, is stabilized, and navigated in everyday life.

Conclusions:

  • Human geography has immense potential to contribute to critical social science interventions on uncertainty.
  • Emphasizes the value of interdisciplinary approaches to studying uncertainty.