Abstract
This article engages with Larner's (2011) important intervention on the geographies of crisis. I situate her argument within recent debates on explanation and description in the social sciences. The significance of Larner's argument is that it provides a new approach to change and crisis. This new approach opens up space and hope for a politics of the possible.
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