Journal of Critical Realism

• A rational case for a critical realist theory of academic writing
  Journal of Critical Realism03 December 2024By Julia Molinari Graduate School and Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UKJulia Molinari is a Lecturer in Professional Academic Communication in English (PACE). She teaches and researches academic writing at the UK’s Open University Graduate School, where she leads the PACE programme on doctoral academic writing practices. She has previously published on academic writing and critical realism and has a PhD in Education and Philosophy from the University of Nottingham, UK.
• Falsificationism redux: in search of explanatory rationality in historical sociology
  Journal of Critical Realism11 November 2024By Simeon J. Newman Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• Living sustainability: reflections on the value of everyday practices
  Journal of Critical Realism07 November 2024By Iana Nesterova Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
• Assessing the validity of counter-authority knowledge: the case of Swedish women’s epistemic patchworking around the risks of copper IUD use
  Journal of Critical Realism25 October 2024By Lena Gunnarsson Maria Wemrell a School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Swedenb Department of Social Work, Linnaeus University, Växjö, SwedenLena Gunnarsson is an associate professor and head of Gender Studies at Örebro University, Sweden. A significant part of her work has dealt with meta-theoretical debates in feminist theory and gender studies, drawing on critical realist philosophy to challenge poststructuralist and postmodernist thinking. The book based on her doctoral thesis, The Contradictions of Love, was awarded the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize. Gunnarsson’s other research areas include sexuality, sexual violence, intimacy, gender and health, and sociology of knowledge.Maria Wemrell is an associate professor in Public Health and senior lecturer in Social Work at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her research interests include health inequalities, intimate partner violence and other aspects of sexual and reproductive health and rights, as well as alternative knowledge claims related to health. She has published in journals including Social Science & Medicine, Violence Against Women, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health and PlosOne.
• Bridge building, medical sociology and beyond: an interview with Graham Scambler
  Journal of Critical Realism20 August 2024By Graham Scambler Jamie Morgan a University College London, London, UKb School of Economics, Analytics and International Business, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UKGraham Scambler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College London (UCL) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. He is the author of numerous books and articles. Additional detail is given in the interview.Jamie Morgan is Professor of Economic Sociology at Leeds Beckett University. He co-edits the Real-World Economics Review with Edward Fullbrook. He has published widely in the fields of economics, political economy, philosophy, sociology and international politics.
• Intersectionality of gender and age (‘gender*age’): a critical realist approach to explaining older women’s increased homelessness
  Journal of Critical Realism19 August 2024By Lyn Craig Catherine Hastings a School of Social and Political Sciences, Melbourne University, Parkville, Australiab Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, Australia
• The reflexivity of innovators from Poland through the lens of critical realism
  Journal of Critical Realism06 August 2024By Agnieszka Karpinska Faculty of Sociology, Department of Sociology of Knowledge and Education, University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland
• When critical realism was ‘new’ and what came after: an interview with William Outhwaite
  Journal of Critical Realism03 August 2024By William Outhwaite Jamie Morgan a The Hermitage, Bampton, UKb School of Economics, Analytics and International Business, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UKWilliam Outhwaite is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University. He is the author of numerous books and articles. Additional detail is given in the interview.Jamie Morgan is Professor of Economic Sociology at Leeds Beckett University. He co-edits the Real-World Economics Review with Edward Fullbrook. He has published widely in the fields of economics, political economy, philosophy, sociology and international politics.
• Social security in the Balkans volume 2, an overview of social policy in the Republics of North Macedonia and Montenegro
  Journal of Critical Realism31 July 2024By Paul Morton PhD RMIT University, Australia
• Racism, identity, and education: Bhaskar’s report on the PhD thesis ‘Strong and Smart’ by Chris Sarra
  Journal of Critical Realism06 July 2024By Roy Bhaskar
• Racism, identity, and education: Bhaskar’s report on the PhD thesis ‘Strong and Smart’ by Chris Sarra
  Journal of Critical Realism06 July 2024By Roy Bhaskar
• Theory as time travel: Patomäki, World Statehood and possible futures
  Journal of Critical Realism03 July 2024By Jamie Morgan School of Economics, Analytics and International Business, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK
• A paradigm shift in giftedness research: integrating critical realism’s ontology, epistemology, and methodology
  Journal of Critical Realism02 July 2024By Kubra Kirca Demirbaga a The Republic of Türkiye Ministry of National Education, Ankara, Türkiyeb Faculty of Education, Bartin University, Bartin, TürkiyeKubra Kirca Demirbaga is a national education expert in the Ministry of National Education in Türkiye and a researcher in the field of gifted education. She completed her Ph.D. in gifted education at Durham University, UK, and her master’s degree in psychology and education at the University of Sheffield, UK. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychological counseling and guidance at Istanbul University, Türkiye. Her research interests are mainly in the areas of giftedness/talent, gifted education, character development and education, and critical realism.
• Expanding knowledge through sequential world views – a critical realist approach
  Journal of Critical Realism17 June 2024By Alan Labas Future Regions Research Centre, Federation University, Ballarat, AustraliaAlan Labas is a management lecturer in the Global Professional School, Federation University Australia, and is a member of the Future Regions Research Centre. Alan’s research focuses on knowledge management with an emphasis on regional business advisory knowledge transmission. Specifically, examining the relationship between professional business advisor knowledge and the knowledge transmission actions undertaken when addressing knowledge requirements of businesses. He has also produced tourism, marketing and event management research. Alan undertakes a practical application of the Critical Realist research paradigm to explain how human agency, social structures, and mechanisms interact in the process of creating knowledge transmission events.
• Further reflections on theory as time travel: a response to Morgan
  Journal of Critical Realism17 June 2024By Heikki Patomäki Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
• Critical realism as a fractal philosophy
  Journal of Critical Realism13 June 2024By K. Robert Isaksen Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
• Excluded or included – structural preconditions for occupational well-being among blue-collar temporary agency workers within the Swedish manufacturing industry
  Journal of Critical Realism13 June 2024By Andreas Kjörling Gunnar Bergström Anna Jansson B Tuukka Kaidesoja Sven Svensson a Department of Occupational Health Science and Psychology, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, University of Gävle, Gävle, Swedenb Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Department of Occupational Health Science and Psychology, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, University of Gävle, Gävle, Swedenc Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research for Worker Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Swedend Department of Social Sciences, Technology and Arts, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Swedene Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finlandf Department of Occupational Health Science and Psychology, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden
• Employing critical realism within and beyond social studies of health: tenets, applications, possible future research and action
  Journal of Critical Realism21 May 2024By Lee F. MonaghanDepartment of Sociology, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
• The pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British exceptionalism and neoliberalism
  Journal of Critical Realism09 April 2024By Jamie MorganSchool of Economics, Analytics and International Business, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK
• Call for papers: special issue on Morphogenetic Régulation
  Journal of Critical Realism28 February 2024By Karim KniouAssociate Editor
• Meaning of work as a personal emergent power[?]: developing theory based on a critical realist study of Sri Lankan workers
  Journal of Critical Realism21 February 2024By Lakshman WimalasenaJames RichardsEdinburgh Business School, School of Social Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UKLakshman Wimalasena is an assistant professor in human resource management (HRM) at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University, UK. A keen enthusiast in Critical Realism, he is dedicated to a research career bridging the problems of social inequality and the emancipatory potential vested in Western philosophy, particularly personal reflexivity, in advancing the life conditions of marginalised individuals. He researches in the areas of sociology of work, critical issues in HRM, diversity & inclusion, digitalisation and social media and reflexivity. He is currently involved in research projects that explore the experiences of rural women and gender justice, digitalisation and social media, gendered dynamics of working from home among IT Professionals, female workers in precarious work in global apparel industry. His key published work focuses on rural Sri Lankan women’s reflexive life and occupational journeys, reflexivity in entrepreneurship and the dominance of reflexive, conscious action over habitual action within contemporary society.James Richards is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management in the Edinburgh Business, Heriot-Watt University. James is also an Academic Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. James has published research in human resource management and employment relations journals, edited book collections and consultancy-based reports. James’ research interests are grounded in industrial sociology and employment relations. Early research projects looked at conventional and electronic forms of employee misbehaviour, micro-resistance and coping behaviour. More recent research considers hidden disabilities in the workplace (neurodivergence and mental health), in-work poverty, sustainable HRM, leaveism, and trade union organising under new industrial relations legislation.
• The question of epistemic fallacy in practical research: the case of IR
  Journal of Critical Realism08 February 2024By Abbas FarasooSchool of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
• Critique and its foundations: on critical realism and the Frankfurt School
  Journal of Critical Realism25 January 2024By Jaakko NevastoEssex Business School, University of Essex, Colchester, UKJaakko Nevasto teaches management at Essex Business School. His interests involve critical theory, business ethics and the philosophy of economics.
• Critical realism as an underpinning philosophy for the implementation of digital twins for urban management
  Journal of Critical Realism16 January 2024By Ramy ElsehrawyBimal KumarRichard WatsonArchitecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
• The contribution of Angels Fear to metaReality: Gregory Bateson and Roy Bhaskar’s idiosyncratic approaches to the sacred
  Journal of Critical Realism16 January 2024By Rob Faure WalkerIOE, Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, London, UK
• PISA and teachers’ reflexivities. A mixed methods case study
  Journal of Critical Realism02 January 2024By Terje André BringelandTone SkinningsrudFaculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, UiT – The Artic University of Norway, Tromsø, NorwayTerje André Bringeland, PhD-student in Education at UiT the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, has done research on effects of PISA, applying Margaret Archer's social realist theories. His research includes history of education, comparative education, and educational sociology.Tone Skinningsrud, Professor of Education at UiT the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, has done research in the history of education, comparative education, educational sociology, and methods of field work.
• The discursive emergence of ‘the market’ in capitalist political economy: crisis system and the Longue Durée
  Journal of Critical Realism08 December 2023By Rob Faure WalkerJohn P. O’ReganIOE, Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, London, UKRob Faure Walker is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at IOE, Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, where he runs the Critical Realism Reading Group with Prof Priscilla Alderson. His most recent book is The Emergence of ‘Extremism’ (2022) with Bloomsbury Academic.John P. O’Regan is Professor of Critical Applied Linguistics at IOE, Faculty of Education and Society, University College London. He is IOE Vice-Dean (International) and Deputy Director of the International Centre for Intercultural Studies. His most recent book is Global English and Political Economy (2021) in the Routledge Language, Society and Political Economy series.
• Morphogenetic Régulation in action: understanding inclusive governance, neoliberalizing processes in Palestine, and the political economy of the contemporary internet
  Journal of Critical Realism07 December 2023By Andrew DryhurstDaniel ‘Zach’ SlomanYazid Zahdaa Political Science, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Den Haag, Netherlandsb Political Science, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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