Fine Companions: Critical Realism and Framework Analysis
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2023 This article discusses the alignment of framework analysis with a critical realist philosophy in qualitative analysis. Whilst both are used in social sciences and prioritise meaning making of complex phenomena, the two approaches have not been combined ...
Jayne Mercier +2 more
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Political ecology and ontology: Is literal critical realism the answer? A response to Knudsen
Journal of Political Ecology, 2023 In a recent article in this journal, Ståle Knudsen argues that the recent trend to flat ontology in political ecology is mistaken, and urges more engagement with critical realism as introduced by Roy Bhaskar.
Tim Forsyth
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Tuukka Kaidesoja on Critical Realist Transcendental Realism
Journal of Social Ontology, 2015 I argue that critical realists think pretty much what Tukka Kaidesoja says that he himself thinks, but also that Kaidesoja’s objections to the views that he attributes to critical realists are not persuasive.
Groff Ruth
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Realist Criminology and its Discontents
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016 Critical criminology must move beyond twentieth-century empiricist and idealist paradigms because the concepts and research programmes influenced by these paradigms are falling into obsolescence. Roger Matthews’ recent work firmly advocates this position
Simon Winlow, Steve Hall
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Introduction to the special issue : applied critical realism in the social sciences [PDF]
, 2018 The aim of our initial call for papers was to encourage the submission of exemplars of applied work, reflections on the use of critical realism, and metatheoretical developments.
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A critical realist (re-)envisaging of emancipatory research, science and practice
, 2022 In September 2021, Rhodes University’s Environmental Learning Research Centre, together with WITS’s Centre for Researching Education and Labour (REAL), hosted The 24th annual International Association of Critical Realism conference online.
Schudel, Ingrid J
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Religious Non-Realism as a Border Zone? Reflecting on Feuerbach’s Anthropological Theology
Filozofia, 2023 In the present paper I examine the issue of religious non-realism with a special focus on its expression in Feuerbach’s anthropological theology.
Peter Šajda
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The Contribution of Systemic Thought to Critical Realism [PDF]
, 2010 Critical realism, especially as developed by Roy Bhaskar, embodies at its heart systemic and holistic concepts such as totality, emergence, open systems, stratification, autopoiesis and holistic causality. These concepts have their own long history of
Mingers, John, John Mingers
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Critical Realism, Gender and Feminism : Exchanges, Challenges, Synergies
, 2016 Editorial to the special issue of JCR on Critical Realism, Gender and ...
Gunnarsson, Lena, +2 more
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What’s in a conference theme?: Some reflections on critical realist research and its emergence in Africa over a period of 20+ years [PDF]
, 2022 In keeping with the 2021 IACR Conference theme (Re) Envisaging Emancipatory Research, Science and Practice, this paper reviews over fifty instances of critical realist research in Africa which have sought to establish emancipatory research praxis by ...
Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
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