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Packing transdisciplinary critical geography amidst sustainability of mountainscapes

Abstract:

The crash of paradigms is now evident in a postmodern and post-structural geographic fad about sustainability, when even nature is thought of as a “social construct.” It is between these tendencies of either Cartesian or Spinozan dogmas about scientific objectives, methods and implications that mountains continue to be a vivid target for geographical research. I argue for the need to integrate the new narratives of mountain science in geocritical analyses that allow for transgressivity and referentialilty of mountain cognition in favor of an innovative transdisciplinary science, Montology, where binaries of dialectic thinking are surmounted by trialectics of spatiality, complexity and complementarity as bases of sustainability considerations. Use of montological scientific approaches will bring mountain science to a new level, where the application of local ecological knowledge and cutting-edge technological instrumentation could render sustainable mountain communities, in dynamic biocultural scenarios.