Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
The Politics of Childhoods Real and Imagined: Practical Application of Critical Realism and Childhood Studies
1st Edition
By Priscilla Alderson
December 01, 2015
The second volume of Priscilla Alderson’s popular and renowned book Childhoods Real and Imagined relates dialectical critical realism to childhood. By demonstrating their relevance and value to each other, Alderson presents a practical introductory guide for applying critical realism to research ...
Economic Growth and Sustainable Housing: an uneasy relationship
1st Edition
By Jin Xue
May 21, 2015
Economic Growth and Sustainable Housing: An Uneasy Relationship critically discusses the possibilities of decoupling environmental degradation from economic growth. The author refutes the belief in combining perpetual economic growth with long-term environmental sustainability based on the premise ...
Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology
1st Edition
By Tuukka Kaidesoja
May 21, 2015
This important book provides detailed critiques of the method of transcendental argumentation and the transcendental realist account of the concept of causal power that are among the core tenets of the bhaskarian version of critical realism. Kaidesoja also assesses the notions of human agency, ...
Indigenist Critical Realism: Human Rights and First Australians’ Wellbeing
1st Edition
By Gracelyn Smallwood
May 12, 2015
Indigenist Critical Realism: Human Rights and First Australians’ Wellbeing consists of a defence of what is popularly known as the Human Rights Agenda in Indigenous Affairs in Australia. It begins with a consideration of the non-well-being of Indigenous Australians, then unfolding a personal ...
What's Critical About Critical Realism?: Essays in Reconstructive Social Theory
1st Edition
By Frédéric Vandenberghe
April 22, 2015
What's Critical About Critical Realism?: Essays in Reconstructive Social Theory draws together 4 major articles that are situated at the intersection of philosophy and sociology. Preceded by a general presentation of Bhaskar´s work, critical realism is used to reconstruct the ...
The Contradictions of Love: Towards a feminist-realist ontology of sociosexuality
1st Edition
By Lena Gunnarsson
February 27, 2015
The Contradictions of Love: Towards a feminist-realist ontology of sociosexuality offers a robust and multifaceted theoretical account of how, in contemporary western societies, women continue to be subordinated to men through sexual love. The book defends and elaborates Anna G. Jónasdóttir’s ...
Critical Realism and Housing Research
1st Edition
By Julie Lawson
September 11, 2014
Since the nineteenth century various housing solutions have evolved, such as sprawling Australian home ownership and compact Dutch social rental housing. This phenomenon cannot be adequately explained with simple descriptions of key events, politics and housing outcomes. Critical Realism and ...
A Realist Theory of Art History
1st Edition
By Ian Verstegen
May 16, 2014
As the theoretical alignments within academia shift, this book introduces a surprising variety of realism to abolish the old positivist-theory dichotomy that has haunted Art History. Demanding frankly the referential detachment of the objects under study, the book proposes a stratified, ...
Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory: I move therefore I am
1st Edition
By Brenda Farnell
May 16, 2014
This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist philosophy of causal powers, it seeks to articulate a concept of dynamic embodiment, one that positions human body movement, and not just ‘the body’ at ...
Engaging with the World: Agency, Institutions, Historical Formations
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret S Archer, Andrea Maccarini
May 16, 2014
This title reflects the general theme of the 2010 IACR annual conference that was held in Padova, Italy, the aim of which was to provide a fresh view on some cultural and structural changes involving Western societies after the world economic crisis of 2008, from the point of view of ...
Eurocentrism: a marxian critical realist critique
1st Edition
By Nick Hostettler
May 16, 2014
The political and social structures of modernity are dominated by really eurocentric forms and relations, yet the theorisation of the eurocentricity of modernity remains barely developed. At the same time, modern political and social theory is fundamentally eurocentric, yet the critique of ...
Ontology Revisited: Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy
1st Edition
By Ruth Groff
May 16, 2014
Groff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit. Social and political philosophy, she maintains, is not as metaphysically neutral as it may seem. Even the most deontological of theories connects up with an attendant set of philosophical commitments regarding what kinds of...