there is a kind of turning point when one comes to start to understand complexity/emergence/process/context/environs but really no easy answers in most social/political cases as to what factors/interests to attend to, or even how to attend to them. Adding more factors often just makes for noise/confusion as does including more actors, so where to start?
My general sense is that we need to take these matters on case by case.
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Network thinking is a good complement: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450140903197435
there is a kind of turning point when one comes to start to understand complexity/emergence/process/context/environs but really no easy answers in most social/political cases as to what factors/interests to attend to, or even how to attend to them. Adding more factors often just makes for noise/confusion as does including more actors, so where to start?
My general sense is that we need to take these matters on case by case.