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Blessed are the uncertain, for they will experience excess
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posted on 2023-06-08, 19:08 authored by Lindsey K HornerIn this paper I look at the possibility that uncertainty may not merely be a stage in the research process, but an outcome in itself. Exploring how university education and scholarship collided with my own personal experiences and identity I discuss how a combination of poststructural theory and my encounters with peace, conflict and religion enabled me to value uncertainty, and I make the case that uncertainty can open up the future to the gift of chance. By intertwining discussions of both lived experience and academic work, the organisation of the paper reflects how the two became inextricably linked, continuously folding into each other, so that my sense of self influenced my research, and conversely, my research influenced my sense of self. The outcome is a discussion of how I incorporated uncertainty into my research and personal life, which I explore using the example of religion, and how I lost and gained my faith, rejecting my previous Christianity while reconstructing a kind of faith found in uncertainty, a sense of place and ethical space to come.
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Emotion, Space and SocietyISSN
1755-4586Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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11Page range
6-15Department affiliated with
- Education Publications
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2014-11-21Usage metrics
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