Journal of Critical Realism

• From a realist epistemology to ecosocialism: an interview with Ted Benton, part 1
  Journal of Critical Realism25 February 2025By Ted Benton Jamie Morgan a Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Essex, UKb School of Economics, Analytics and International Business, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UKTed Benton is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Essex. He is the author of numerous books and articles. Additional detail is given in the interview.Jamie Morgan is a 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.
• On the possibility of morphocide: can fossil capitalism be dismantled?
  Journal of Critical Realism14 February 2025By Christian Ståhl Department of Behaviour Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
• Deleuze’s concept of virtuality and critical realist ontology
  Journal of Critical Realism13 February 2025By Tobin Nellhaus Independent Scholar, New York
• The ebb and flow of liberal reformism: a critical realist contribution to the analysis of the Duterte presidency in the Philippines
  Journal of Critical Realism12 February 2025By Juan Alberto Mercado College of Public Affairs and Development, University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
• A new era for the Journal of Critical Realism
  Journal of Critical Realism10 February 2025By Leigh Price Faculty of Teacher Education and Pedagogy, University of Inland Norway, Norway
• Thinking like a critical realist: getting through the portal
  Journal of Critical Realism10 February 2025By Catherine Hastings Karen Sheppard Angela Davenport a Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney Australiab Learning Designer Manager, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australiac Director of Nursing, ABU Rehabilitation, Auckland, New Zealand
• Introduction to the special issue on judgemental rationality
  Journal of Critical Realism10 December 2024By Robert Isaksen Division of Academic Development, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
• Rountable: judgemental rationality in the critical realist project
  Journal of Critical Realism07 December 2024By Robert Isaksen Frédéric Vandenberghe Dorothea Elena Schoppek Leigh Price Jamie Morgan Ruth Groff a Division of Academic Development, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norwayb IFCS-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study, Germanyc Institute of Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germanyd University of Inland Norway, Lillehammer, Norwaye School of Economics, Analytics and International Business, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds,UKf Department of Political Science, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USAFrédéric Vandenberghe is a professor of sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and a distinguished max weber fellow at the University of Erfurt in Germany. He has published widely on the history of ideas and various aspects of social theory in English, French and Portuguese. In English, he published A Philosophical History of German Sociology (2009), What’s Critical about Critical Realism? (2014) and co-authored with Alain Caillé For a New Classic Sociology (2021).Dorothea Elena Schoppek is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. She researches social and political conflicts of transformation and wrote her doctoral thesis on the possibilities and limits of “transformative agency” for social ecological agrarian change. In addition to her focus on environmental policy, she is interested in the role of law in transformative processes and in questions of the philosophy of science.Jamie Morgan is a 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. He works on contemporary problems and their socio-economic context, most recently: political transition (Brexit, Trump), corporate tax avoidance, climate change, financialisation, artificial intelligence and social change, and modern forms of slavery. He also has a longstanding interest in the philosophy, methodology and pedagogy of economics.Ruth Porter Groff is a professor of political theory and an affiliated professor philosophy at Saint Louis University. She is the author of numerous books and articles. She writes about causal powers and about how select topics in analytic metaphysics are related to the history of social and political thought, critical philosophy of social science, the philosophy of agency, and social ontology.Leigh Price is an Associate Professor, University of Inland Norway, where she lectures in Philosophy of Science, Education for Sustainability, and Special Pedagogy. She has written extensively on the concept of interdisciplinarity and co-authored Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing (2018) with Roy Bhaskar and Berth Danermark. She is currently a part of a research project that is exploring the educational experiences of children with forced-migration backgrounds during COVID. She is also working on the application of third generation systems theory to educational settings.
• 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

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