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IACR has announced the first details of the 2026 Annual Conference:
📆Pre-Conference July 27- July 29
📆Conference30 July - 1 August
📍International Institute of Social Science, Den Haag, The Netherlands (hybrid format)
More coming soon!
📆Pre-Conference July 27- July 29
📆Conference30 July - 1 August
📍International Institute of Social Science, Den Haag, The Netherlands (hybrid format)
More coming soon!
December 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
IACR has announced the first details of the 2026 Annual Conference:
📆Pre-Conference July 27- July 29
📆Conference30 July - 1 August
📍International Institute of Social Science, Den Haag, The Netherlands (hybrid format)
More coming soon!
📆Pre-Conference July 27- July 29
📆Conference30 July - 1 August
📍International Institute of Social Science, Den Haag, The Netherlands (hybrid format)
More coming soon!
Juan David Parra's new paper 'Trans-immanence, morphogenesis and régulation: new methodological avenues for applied political economy (of education) research' applies the morphogenetic régulation approach to education policy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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December 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Juan David Parra's new paper 'Trans-immanence, morphogenesis and régulation: new methodological avenues for applied political economy (of education) research' applies the morphogenetic régulation approach to education policy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New open access paper 'Morphogenetic Régulation: An Introduction to the Special Issue' by
Karim Knio, available now from the Journal of Critical Realism - and the other papers from the special issue are also starting to appear... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Karim Knio, available now from the Journal of Critical Realism - and the other papers from the special issue are also starting to appear... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Morphogenetic Régulation: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Published in Journal of Critical Realism (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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December 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New open access paper 'Morphogenetic Régulation: An Introduction to the Special Issue' by
Karim Knio, available now from the Journal of Critical Realism - and the other papers from the special issue are also starting to appear... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Karim Knio, available now from the Journal of Critical Realism - and the other papers from the special issue are also starting to appear... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Book symposium: celebrating the 50th anniversary of Roy Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science - with contributions from @daveev.bsky.social , Ruth Groff, @objectoriented.bsky.social , Jonathan Joseph & Doug Porpora. Essential reading for critical realists! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Book symposium: celebrating the 50th publication anniversary of Roy Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science
Published in Journal of Critical Realism (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Book symposium: celebrating the 50th anniversary of Roy Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science - with contributions from @daveev.bsky.social , Ruth Groff, @objectoriented.bsky.social , Jonathan Joseph & Doug Porpora. Essential reading for critical realists! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Here's a new open access paper about the social ontology of money from Jamie Morgan in the Cambridge Journal of Economics: academic.oup.com/cje/advance-...
The historical context of the experience of money and the road less travelled: the history of economic thought, Dennis Robertson’s Money, the thing positioned and the positioned thing
Abstract. In this article, I place Dennis Robertson’s popular book Money in the context of its time in order to make a simple point about the scope and lim
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November 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Here's a new open access paper about the social ontology of money from Jamie Morgan in the Cambridge Journal of Economics: academic.oup.com/cje/advance-...
Here's the intro to a special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism (with 5 more papers) on the relation between CR and criminal justice, by Amanda Wilson & Alan Norrie: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Introduction to the Special IssueCritical Realism and Criminal Justice: A Dialectical Engagement
Published in Journal of Critical Realism (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Here's the intro to a special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism (with 5 more papers) on the relation between CR and criminal justice, by Amanda Wilson & Alan Norrie: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
Exploring Educational Leadership Through Critical Realism
Discover critical insights on educational leadership in 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' by Thorpe and Mboyo.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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...
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....
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...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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!
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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!
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!
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.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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!
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...
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.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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!
With a blog post, podcast, & book lunch events in the pipeline, get your (library) copy of our book www.routledge.com/Educational-... & join us as we soon discuss our throughts on #Educational #Leadership through the prism of #Critical #Realism
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@routledgebooks.bsky.social @crnetwork.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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...
September 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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...
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...
Publications (complete list)
You would oblige us so much by suggesting any addition or reporting any mistake (We suspect there are a lot of them still). You are very welcome to either comment at the bottom of this webpage or w…
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September 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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...
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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August 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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....
August 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Including 'A critical realist exploration of harassment in platform work' by @quinlanresearch Tracey Carr & Xing Luo www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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August 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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
With many thanks to the Academy of Applied Sciences for hosting
August 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
And there's lots more photos here: iacr.fmweb.pl/conference-d...
With many thanks to the Academy of Applied Sciences for hosting
With many thanks to the Academy of Applied Sciences for hosting
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
August 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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
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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July 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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....
'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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July 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
'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
July 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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
July 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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
July 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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
July 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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