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Julian Go’s Post-Positivist, Postcolonial Realism

25th April 201817th March 2022

A post by Paige Sweet. Critical realism shares a natural post-positivist alliance with postcolonial studies and feminist standpoint theory. All three paradigms offer a sharp critique of positivism – its neutral masquerade, its valorization of detached inquiry, its empiricism, its… Read More »Julian Go’s Post-Positivist, Postcolonial Realism

Six Epistemic Challenges for Ethnographers (and how critical realism might help)

5th March 201817th March 2022

As a result of a series of workshops undertaken over the course of the year, a group of us decided to sit down and have a frank discussion about ethnography; both our own personal experiences as we have gone about… Read More »Six Epistemic Challenges for Ethnographers (and how critical realism might help)