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Introduction : the problem with knowing the answer -- Ethical action in an ambiguous world -- The depths of ambiguity : ethical pluralism and wonder in Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Rachel Carson -- Good and evil without progress -- Complexity In action : the challenging uncertainties of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X -- Loving the world without certainty -- Built-in ambiguity : the spirituality and utopianism of Frank Lloyd Wright -- Concluding ideas on ambiguous time -- Concluding practices for an uncertain stand : fracking, protesting, and engineering the climate.

Tackling wicked problems in complex evaluation ecologies / Rodney Hopson and Fiona Cram -- Ecological thinking as a route to sustainability in evaluation / Andy Rowe -- Indigenous insight on valuing complexity, sustaining relationships, being accountable / Linda Tuhiwai Smith -- Evaluating HIV practices and evidence-supported programs in AIDS community-based organizations / Robin Lin Miller -- Complex ecology in international development evaluation, focusing on women and people with disabilities / Donna M. Mertens and Arlinda S. Boland -- Creating collaborative community practices through restorative justice principles in evaluation / Jill Anne Chouinard and Ayesha S. Boyce -- Creating a sustainable and equitable food system / Oran B. Hesterman and Ricardo Millett -- Developing relevant and responsible recommendations in health policy / Crystal L. Barksdale, Rodney Hopson, Kimberly Green, Karolina Schantz, Jennifer Kenyon, William Rodick, Akashi Kaul, and C. Godfrey Jacobs -- Considering the Paris Declaration principles on aid effectiveness as a means to drive reform / Michael Quinn Patton -- Digging deeper to engage wicked problems through evaluation / Fiona Cram and Rodney Hopson

In 1973, Horst W Rittel and Malvin A Webber introduced the term 'wicked problem' in planning theory. They describe spatial planning as dealing with inherent uncertainty, complexity and inevitable normativity. This contribution picks up the concept of wicked problems, reflects on it from a planning-theoretical perspective, and proposes the use of Cultural Theory's concept of clumsy solutions as a response to wicked planning problems. In discussing public participation processes in spatial planning, it is then shown what clumsy solutions mean for spatial planning. The four rationalities of Cultural Theory are then used to explain why public participation in planning can become wicked, and how these rationalities provide a response that copes with this wickedness.

This is an open access book. This book offers the first overview of the 'wicked problems' literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the 'problem' and the preferred 'solution' being strongly contested. It contextualises the debate using a wide range of relevant policy examples, explaining why these issues attract so much attention. There is an increasing interest in the conceptual and practical aspects of how 'wicked problems' are identified, understood and managed by policy practitioners. The standard public management responses to complexity and uncertainty (including traditional regulation and market-based solutions) are insufficient. Leaders often advocate and implement ideological 'quick fixes', but integrative and inclusive responses are increasingly being utilised to recognise the multiple interests and complex causes of these problems. This book uses examples from a wide range of social, economic and environmental fields in order to develop new insights about better solutions, and thus gain broad stakeholder acceptance for shared strategies for tackling 'wicked problems'.

Climate change and overlapping global health emergencies manifest as complexly interwoven problems that are at once cultural, economic, social and political. They can be identified as "wicked problems" (Popper 1963, Rittel&Webber 1973),"because of the incomplete knowledge of effects and interdependencies, because it involves actors operating in different sectors and at different levels, because all possible actions have uncertain effects, and because they are intertwined with other problems in complex and, to a large extent, unmanageable systems" (Shiefloe 2020, p5). Such wicked problems appeal to abandon disciplinary specialisms and to instead work trans- and inter-disciplinarily. I propose that they appeal for Sound Studies as a study of culture, society, politics, and so on, from the relational logic and connecting capacity of listening, to hear entanglements and co-dependencies and contribute to their understanding. This talk will speculate on this suggestion. It will try to conceptualise such a Sound Studies as a discipline that does not exist, that is not-disciplined, but that interlopes with every discipline, embedding itself to work across, and developing novel methodologies to let us see the world through its interdependencies.