Geography, sociology, anthropology for starters. Take a read about postmodern epistemologies. See how many papers draw on "pure theory". I even saw this in my required coursework prior to dropping out of a PhD in urban planning.
can you point to a specific example of a geography program turning away from the scientific method? I've seen postmodernism and deconstructivism applied to architecture and rhetoric, but as convoluted and ultimately non-explanatory as I found them, they were still based in the formal ideas of cause and effect, and experimental approaches to theories.
Without diving into my personal experiences with a specific department, I invite you to take a look at google scholar for peer reviewed publications grounded in theory approaches such as queer theory and critical theory in geographic studies: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=que...
Also please note that me calling these theories non-scientific is not a colloquial dig at them. I'm speaking precisely that the literature contributing to these theories explicitly and frequently opposes the scientific method as a tool of oppression. Even though I believe in (bounded) rationality, I do agree with this viewpoint in part. Science, as practiced by fallible humans, can be used for bad things! But, where I disagree with critical theory and its children, is that this somehow delegitimizes scientific epistemology.
A specific publication I remember reading years ago as an assigned reading cites, as a limitation of the paper their use of the Cartesian plane in mapping, as the Cartesian plane is incompatible with queer theory: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/000456007017340...
the existence of a couple of papers that some people got published doesn't meet the bar of a discipline turning against the scientific method. Could you please try again?
Did you bother to click the google scholar link? Several dozen pages of results that fit the mold and you call it "a couple of papers"? I don't want to assume you are trolling, but seriously.
your link was simply for a google search for 'queer theory critical theory geography'. Because 'geography' is an overloaded word that both refers to a formal discipline about the physical world (mapping, terrain, elevation, boundaries, borders, GIS) and also the concept of exploratory investigation in analytical thinking, the search finds a lot of earnest cases of people talking about the concepts of gender, some cases about whether geography-as-a-subject is over-fixated on imperial origin, and to my counting, zero cases of geography as a discipline abandoning the scientific method. So your initial assertion remains unconvincing. Please feel free to name a specific department if that helps.
It's easy to make fun of some of the overwrought academic papers that are out there. Nevertheless if you're a huge fan of the scientific method and rigorous thinking, as you seem to claim that you are, then making your own overwrought and specious claims about the issue is not a way to solve the problem.
The parent post talks about "recent years". Postmodernism being in any way dominant hasn't been a thing (in American universities) since the late 80s or maybe early 90s. The common approach these days is theoretical pluralism.
