A guest post by Jamie Morgan (j.a.morgan@leedsbeckett.ac.uk ) Critical realists and those influenced by them have a longstanding interest in environmental issues: Clive Spash, John O’Neill, Petter Naess, Leigh Price, Jin Xue, Ted Benton, Andrew Sayer and many others. Drawing… Read More »The Future is Now: global heating and COP hot air?
Our series of online workshops introducing critical realism will be starting next week. These free learning opportunities are intended to support PhD students or early career researchers who would like to learn about critical realism and its use in social… Read More »Online workshops introducing critical realism starting soon!
Dear IACR members and friends, On behalf of the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize Committee 2021, I have the pleasure of announcing the following: The Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize 2021 About the Prize: The Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize is awarded annually for a… Read More »Cheryl Frank Prize awarded to Buch-Hansen and Nielsen
(Re) Envisaging Emancipatory Research, Science and Practice The 2021 Annual Conference of IACR, the International Association for Critical Realism, (#IACR2021) will be an Online Conference (Zoom Platform) hosted by Rhodes University and the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) from 20… Read More »IACR 2021 Conference: Call for Papers
The Critical Realism Network is planning a series of online workshops introducing critical realism. These learning opportunities will be free and open to anyone interested. The series is intended to support PhD students or early career researchers who would like… Read More »Pre-announcement of online workshops introducing critical realism
The Bhaskar Memorial Fund A sustainable, diversified global society in which the free flourishing of each is a condition of the free flourishing of all. This, for Roy Bhaskar (1944-2014), is the core objective (moral alethia) of the human species.… Read More »Applications invited to the Bhaskar Memorial Fund: 2021
Call for Papers ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTEBOOKSGuest Editors:Andrej Grubačić, California Institute of Integral StudiesŽiga Vodovnik, University of Ljubljana Commenting on the role of anthropology, James C. Scott wrote that anthropology should be viewed as a »natural partner of other social sciences«. It complements… Read More »Towards a Dialogical Anthropology: For David Graeber
A guest post by Jamie Morgan, introducing an open access series of interviews with leading critical realists. [Updated 15/9/21: we now have a permanent page with pointers to these and other interviews here. Also added a link to the second… Read More »Interviews with Critical Realists and fellow travellers
Update: the closing date for nominations has been extended to Friday May 21st, 2021. The International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) invites nominations for the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize. The prize is awarded annually for a book that constitutes, motivates or… Read More »Cheryl Frank book prize: call for nominations
The Centre for Critical Realism and the Critical Realist Network would like to invite scholars of every level to recommend their favourite CR readings related to different fields and disciplines. This will be organised into a living document to be… Read More »Help us crowd source a Critical Realism bibliography