ArticleProgress in human geography2020
Being surprised and surprising ourselves: A geography of personal and social change.
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- Adapting Scenario Planning to Create an Expectation for Surprises: Going Beyond Probability and Plausibility in Risk Assessment.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2025Article
- Impacts of cash transfer and "cash plus" programs on self- perceived stress in Africa: Evidence from Ghana, Malawi, and Tanzania.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Surprising combinations of research contents and contexts are related to impact and emerge with scientific outsiders from distant disciplines.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Does depression co-occur within households? The moderating effects of financial resources and job insecurity on psychological contagion.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- A life course view on depression: Social determinants of depressive symptom trajectories over 25 Years of Americans' Changing Lives.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Keeping in balance on the multimorbidity tightrope: A narrative analysis of older patients' experiences of living with and managing multimorbidity.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Factors associated with anxiety symptoms among medical laboratory professionals in Khobar: Single institution study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Social capital, population health, and the gendered statistics of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality.SSM - population health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Surprises are refuted expectations and therefore an inevitable concomitant of errors of anticipating the future. This paper argues that the timing is just right for a spatial account of surprise, or rather, for a geography of personal and social change that deploys the trope of surprise to help explain how and why change happens. Whether we are surprised by what transpires in our surroundings or we are surprising ourselves by leaping forward in impetuous deeds of reinventing who we are, the common denominator of these processes of becoming is that they produce geographical space and are produced by it.
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