Conclusion: The spatialization of the social sciences

Abstract

Few are those to deny that the current state of the social sciences is one of crisis. Brought about by a widespread recognition of the instability inherent to social scientific concepts, the very idea of a crisis appears to have turned ubiquitous — so ubiquitous indeed as to constitute a new and commonly accepted status quo. In the wake of postmodernism, going round in circles has become the norm and an emerging consensus within the social sciences holds that where everything has become questionable in general, we no longer need to question anything in particular.