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Including 'A critical realist exploration of harassment in platform work' by ‪@quinlanresearch Tracey Carr & Xing Luo www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Journal of Critical Realism Volume 24, Issue 2 of Journal of Critical Realism

The new issues of Journal of Critical Realism, (24:2) is now available online including papers on living sustainably, false memory, harassment in platform work and greenwashing www.tandfonline.com/toc/yjcr20/2...

And there's lots more photos here: iacr.fmweb.pl/conference-d...
With many thanks to the Academy of Applied Sciences for hosting

Juan David Parra speaking at IACR conference

This year's annual conference of the International Association of Critical Realism going very smoothly in Szczecin, Poland. Here's Juan David Parra talking about the Global Learning Crisis in Education, in a room named after Margaret Archer

The Governing Dynamics of Social Reality: A Unified Theory This paper seeks to describe the fundamental properties of social reality and elucidate the normative behavioural processes constituting these properties. Relying on previous theoretical work on soci....

New in the JTSB: 'The Governing Dynamics of Social Reality: A Unified Theory' by Gustaf Glava - brings together John Searle's social ontology with Dave Elder-Vass's norm circle theory @daveev.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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'Navigating the “crossroads”: Critical realism as the middle path in critical social work research' - new paper in the Journal of Social Work by @sandyrao.bsky.social et al journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New in the journal of critical realism: 'Researching the self in critical realist biographical research: understanding the temporality of self’s concerns' by Michalis Christodoulou buff.ly/H0zIsby

New in the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour: 'Patrimonial Imperialism: A Taxonomy of the Causes of the Russo-Ukrainian War' - a critical realist analysis by @pierzynskigabriel.bsky.social and Jonathan Joseph buff.ly/ZcM52KZ

New in the Journal of Critical Realism: review by Mikhail Perevozov of Michael Devitt's 2023 book on Biological Essentialism. Devitt challenges current dismissals of biological essentialism - lots of interest here for critical realists! buff.ly/Warfj1W

New in the Journal of Critical Realism: 'Remembering Petter Naess' by Leigh Price and Lene Nyhus. Petter was a good friend of Roy Bhaskar and a founding member of the Scandinavian critical realist group buff.ly/4yuVPxx

New this week from Alex Stavrianos in Educational Theory: 'Unveiling the Layers of Reality: An Exploration of Critical Realism in Interdisciplinary Research' buff.ly/0Z2zvaP

Embeddedness and entanglement between the methods of Articulation and Calibration This paper outlines how the intersection between the literatures on embeddedness and entanglement has been usually explained through the method of Articulation. It then contrasts Articulation with ...

Here's a fascinating new paper from Karim Knio: 'Embeddedness and entanglement between the methods of Articulation and Calibration'. Drawing on Spinozian philosophy of Substance and Critical Realism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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New in Journal of Critical Realism: Bob Jessop's review of @sorenmau.bsky.social new book on Marx and the economic power of capital

The false memory controversy: a critical realist clarification In this paper the false memory movement is first described. Its context of emergence in the 1990s and its slow decline in recent years is traced to positivist experimental psychology in general, an...

New paper in the Journal of Critical Realism: 'The false memory controversy: a critical realist clarification' by David Pilgrim www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

And here's another great critical realist interview: part 1 of Jamie Morgan's interview with Clive Spash: 'The road to Social Ecological Economics' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Want to submit an abstract for the IACR conference in Szczecin this summer? The deadline is now 6 July.
Register for 'active participation' at iacr.fmweb.pl/application-... then email your abstract to: iacr2025@anstwp.pl Also works for remote participants!

Greenwashing: a critical realist approach to the study of false ecological claims Greenwashing is on the rise as a strategy for maintaining business-as-usual through false ecological claims. This paper articulates an approach to the study of greenwashing guided by the philosophy...

New in the Journal of Critical Realism: 'Greenwashing: a critical realist approach to the study of false ecological claims' by Andreas Roos www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Watch the book launch from the latest publication from the Routledge Studies in Critical Realism series ‪@crnetwork.bsky.social‬ ‘Codes of corruption’ by Karin Zotzmann uses CR discourse analysis to examine rich conversational transcripts of illicit transactions.

Interviews This page links to a range of interviews with Critical Realist scholars, including the ongoing series by Jamie Morgan published (open access) in the Journal of Critical Realism. It also includes in…

Just added to our (long) list of links to critical realist interviews: Hubert Buch-Hansen's 2005 interview with Roy Bhaskar for the journal Distinktion. Well worth a read! criticalrealismnetwork.org/interviews/

YouTube video by Critical Realism Network Explaining real cases of corruption with critical realism

Did you miss our webinar on Karin Zotzmann's new book 'Codes of Corruption'? Or was it so good you want to hear it again? You're in luck! You can watch it again here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3YY...

Only two days to go until Karin's webinar! Join up via eventbrite to learn about a fascinating critical realist book analysing transcripts of real corruption conversations.

A critical realist exploration of harassment in platform work The purpose of this paper is to explore workplace harassment in the context of platform work. To seek a causal explanation for harassment experienced by platform workers, we conducted a secondary a...

New in Journal of Critical Realism: 'A critical realist exploration of harassment in platform work' by Elizabeth Quinlan, Tracey Carr & Xing Luo: "identifies harassment as an emergent property of the structural characteristics of the labour process that interact with workers' agency"

Codes of Corruption: book launch Karin Zotzmann’s Codes of Corruption: A Critical Realist Discourse Analysis of Illicit Transactions (2025) is the latest exciting book in Routledge’s Critical Realism book series. The C…

Have you signed up yet for our next critical realist book launch seminar? Karin Zotzmann will be discussing her new book Codes of Corruption on May 14th 2025 at 2.30pm (UK: GMT+1). Sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Codes of Corruption: book launch Karin Zotzmann’s Codes of Corruption: A Critical Realist Discourse Analysis of Illicit Transactions (2025) is the latest exciting book in Routledge’s Critical Realism book series. The C…

Have you signed up yet for our next critical realist book launch seminar? Karin Zotzmann will be discussing her new book Codes of Corruption on May 14th 2025 at 2.30pm (UK: GMT+1). Find out more: criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/03/27/c...

With @csc-barrington.bsky.social ...

Book Launch: Codes of Corruption - Karin Zotzmann The Centre for Critical Realism is hosting this online book launch on May 14th 2025 at 2.30pm BST.

Karin Zotzmann’s 'Codes of Corruption: A Critical Realist Discourse Analysis of Illicit Transactions' is out soon in the Critical Realism book series.

Join us on May 14th 2.30pm BST, where Karin will discuss it with Robert Barrington & Gareth Wiltshire.

Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Interesting contribution to the debate about what might be basic tenets of critical realism through the idea of threshold concepts. There's subtlety in their argument that these concepts help those new to CR to understand what's going on, rather than ones that all critical realists hold.

This article explores how democratically elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times. Drawing on 132 interviews with decision-makers in England, it uses the case of healthy urban development to explore the role of elected mayors in mission delivery. Findings show that mayors can be figureheads for a place, work directly towards national missions, implement cross-cutting programmes, convene partnerships, and lead local innovations with new evidence and data. However, more central government support is needed with investment in capacity, a broader range of powers, and greater freedom from central targets and siloes.

🚨🆕 New paper published online today 🆕🚨

'How Democratically Elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times'

Published OPEN ACCESS in @regionalstudies.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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'Why not multiplicities? Dismantling the nation–state–society' - new CCR Associate Member Dabney Waring says international relations "must reject the nation–state–society and posit, instead, different kinds of coexisting social entities nested within and overlapping each other" :