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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · 19d

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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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · 26d

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...

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

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.

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 1

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...

Journal of Critical Realism

Volume 24, Issue 2 of Journal of Critical Realism

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

Juan David Parra speaking at IACR conference

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 28

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....

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....

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 28

'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....

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 21

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

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 14

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....

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 ...

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Julian Winn @winn-on-health.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Dave Elder-Vass @daveev.bsky.social · Jul 1

Very pleased that my paper 'Segmenting Ontology' is out in Synthese doi.org/10.1007/s112... On the relationship between quantum, material and social reality.

Segmenting ontology - Synthese

Ontological universalism is widespread, but this paper argues that the validity of many ontological claims is bounded, and thus that segmented (though not fragmented) ontologies may represent the worl...

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 19

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

Søren Mau 🇵🇸 @sorenmau.bsky.social · Jun 16

thanks to Bob Jessop for this review of my book: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Mute compulsion: a Marxist theory of the economic power of capital

Published in Journal of Critical Realism (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 19

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...

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...

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 18

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....

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 13

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: [email protected] Also works for remote participants!

Application form – konferencja

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 13

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....

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...

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anthonythorpe.bsky.social @anthonythorpe.bsky.social · May 28

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.

Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · May 19

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...

Explaining real cases of corruption with critical realism

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · May 30

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/

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…

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · May 19

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...

Explaining real cases of corruption with critical realism

YouTube video by Critical Realism Network

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Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · May 12

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.

Critical Realism Network @crnetwork.bsky.social · May 7

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…

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