By Dena Freeman and Heikki Patomäki The Global Left in a Multipolar World is a new open access book which explores how a transformative global left politics might be advanced in the world-political context of the 2020s, 2030s, and beyond.… Read More »The Future of the Global Left
This guest post by Shannon Brincat and Heikki Patomäki introduces their new book on dialectics as a global form of thought, drawing on a range of non-Western as well as European traditions. Dialectical Dialogues in Global International Relations offers a… Read More »Dialectical Dialogues in Global International Relations
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We’re pleased to announce three new podcasts in our ‘Studies in Critical Realism’ series, published by the Centre for Critical Realism. In each podcast Gareth Wiltshire interviews the author(s) of a recent book published in Routledge’s Critical Realist book series.… Read More »Three new critical realist podcasts
By Chris Sarra and Andreas Vavvos Introduction This blog post presents a condensed version of an interview conducted by Andreas Vavvos with Chris Sarra, as part of a wider initiative to explore the intersections between critical realism and Indigenous knowledge.… Read More »Critical Realism as an Emancipatory Philosophy for Indigenous Education: An Interview with Chris Sarra
The Centre for Critical Realism (CCR) was established as a charitable trust in November 1996 with the general aim of supporting and promoting activities, both theoretical and practical, concerned with the development of realist social theory and philosophy. Today the… Read More »Call for applications to join the Board of the Centre for Critical Realism
Varieties of Realism, Varieties of Critical Realism? This year’s annual conference of the International Association for Critical Realism will be held at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands. Pre-Conference: July 27 – July 29, 2026Conference: July… Read More »IACR 2026 call for papers issued
Michael C. Leach Department of Public Law & Governance, Tilburg Law School, 2021 Download from repository Abstract Since the mid-1990s, the ‘Rule of Law’ as been recognized as being a dominant conceptual frame for legal and governance reform work in… Read More »A kaleidoscope of meaning fragments: Understanding the rule of law’s paradoxes in international development
Sarah Bates Evoy (sarah.bates-evoy@setu.ie, website) South East Technological University, Ireland, 2024 Download from repository Abstract The thesis is a largely empirical study of the professional identities of education and training practitioners whose activities were brought into a new sector of… Read More »Practitioner Identities and Sector Reform in Contemporary Further Education and Training in Ireland
Richard Remelie (r.remelie@mmu.ac.uk, website) Manchester Metropolitan University, 2024 Download from repository Abstract Underpinned by the philosophy of Critical Realism, this thesis provides new ways to explain differences in student experiences of university. It achieves this by presenting quantitative evidence of… Read More »Why do people go to university and why does it matter? Understanding differences in student experiences via a quantitative analysis of student reflexivity and student motivations