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Exploring Educational Leadership Through Critical Realism Discover critical insights on educational leadership in 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' by Thorpe and Mboyo.

Here's a new blog post by Anthony Thorpe and Jean Pierre Elonga Mboyo about their recent book 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/11/05/e...

From a realist epistemology to ecosocialism: an interview with Ted Benton, Part 2 In Part 1 of this interview Professor Benton discussed his early life, education and the start of his academic career and focused in particular on his Philosophical Foundations of the Three Sociolo...

Part 2 of Jamie Morgan's interview with the early (critical) realist philosopher and eco-socialist Ted Benton is now out in the Journal of Critical Realism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now available! The Critical Realist thesis archive criticalrealismnetwork.org/the-critical... Just the tip of the iceberg so far, but if you have a critical realist thesis you can also submit it!

Call for Papers on Critical Realism and Human-Nature Relations Submit your paper on critical realism and human-nature relations by Feb 28, 2025. Explore new approaches for addressing environmental crises.

Here's a new call for papers, for a special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism on critical realism and human-nature relations: criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/10/30/c... Looks interesting!

Exploring Critical Realism in Planning Theory and Practice Contribute to our edited volume on critical realism in planning. Explore theoretical and empirical insights by submitting your abstract today.

Working in planning? You might be interested in this new call for contributions to an edited book on ‘Critical Realism and Planning’ criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/10/23/c...

The latest book in our Critical Realism book series!

Here's a blog post from Aristide Bertrand about the CSO's new bibliography of Margaret Archer's work: criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/09/17/n...

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Our friends in the Centre for Social Ontology have just published an online bibliography of the work of Margaret Archer - will be a useful resource for many critical realists. Here it is: socialontology.org/people/marga...

Emerging Interest in Critical Realism in Japan's Research Explore the growing interest in Critical Realism in Japan with study groups, translations, and developments in nursing and social sciences.

Learn about recent developments in critical realism in Japan in our latest blog post, from Hazuki Kajiwara: criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/08/28/c...

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...