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Our 1. Meeting! Working Group Critical Realism & Peace Studies! Here some further informations: josefmuehlbauer.com/critical-rea... #peacestudies #peace #criticalrealism #conference #discussion #politics In case u miss it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsj...

Critical Realism & Peace Studi...

Our 1. Meeting! Working Group Critical Realism & Peace Studies! Here some further informations: josefmuehlbauer.com/critical-rea... #peacestudies #peace #criticalrealism #conference #discussion #politics In case u miss it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsj...

Critical Realism & Peace Studi...

Our 1. Meeting! Working Group Critical Realism & Peace Studies! Here some further informations: josefmuehlbauer.com/critical-rea... #peacestudies #peace #criticalrealism #conference #discussion #politics In case u miss it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsj...

Critical Realism & Peace Studi...

Our 1. Meeting! Working Group Critical Realism & Peace Studies! Here some further informations: josefmuehlbauer.com/critical-rea... #peacestudies #peace #criticalrealism #conference #discussion #politics In case u miss it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsj...

Critical Realism & Peace Studi...

Our 1. Meeting! Working Group Critical Realism & Peace Studies! Here some further informations: josefmuehlbauer.com/critical-rea... #peacestudies #peace #criticalrealism #conference #discussion #politics In case u miss it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsj...

Critical Realism & Peace Studi...

My thoughts on "What Makes Academic Writing Human(e): A Critical Realist Response" in: Bouchard & Zotzmann, eds. #CriticalRealism in #AppliedLinguistics #CambridgeUniversityPress 2026

#AcademicWriting
#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#WhatMakesAcademicWritingHumane
#GenAI

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/critical-realism-in-applied-linguistics/what-makes-academic-writing-humane/C0B8F2E866A5750FE9B4C19FD04FD78A

📘 Have you written a PhD using critical realism?

The critical realism network has just launched a thesis archive to collect these as a public resource:

Our thesis archive provides links to doctoral theses written by critical realist scholars, as a resource to help other researchers understand how critical realism can be employed in social research.

#criticalRealism #doctoral #PhD #thesis

I'll be giving this year's keynote at #EATAW25 - alongside Suresh Canagarajah & Federico Navarro - on:

'AI Realism: Reclaiming the Human in AI-enhanced Academic Literacies' (cf abstract) {JM}
🤞
#PACEspace #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #GenAI #CriticalRealism #OpenUniversity

www.eataw2025.com/keynote

After 16 years and 7 months I’ve finished Platform and Agency

I’ll do one more read through when it gets back from my proof reader, but the book I started in September 2008 with my PhD is now finished 👇

The virtue of the detraditionalisation thesis lay in its insistence on a meta-process, a change which exceeds empirical trends which can be measured. It provides, as Lundby (2009: 141) puts it, “a meta approach that makes it possible to integrate very different results of surveys and qualitative investigations into an overall coherent understanding”. The problems with the detraditionalisation thesis arose from the grandiose poetics which left it captivated by its own pronouncements about epochal change. For this reason I believe we ought to be as cautious as we can be about declaring an outcome to sociotechnical change, without dispensing with the recognition that there will be an outcome. If anything the vast investment in LLMs and the data infrastructure which supports them, intersecting with a post-pandemic political economy which appears to be leaving neoliberalism behind, heralds an intensification of change rather than a diminution (Tooze 2021, Varoufakis 2023). It’s possible this might be leading towards a perpetual polycrisis, a social order unable to stabilise itself amidst an accelerating climate catastrophe. But even this doom loop, suggested by Seymour’s (2024) notion of disaster nationalism, represents a social order of sorts, even if it’s an apocalyptic one. 

It is difficult to incorporate this horizon of crisis into our frame of reference without subordinating our analysis of the interaction phase through which it is being generated. However by  approaching platformisation through the concepts of psychobiography and personal morphogenesis, I have argued that we can avoid both grandiose (and premature) pronouncements about a ‘digital age’ and dismissive rejections of the reality of genuine change. The analysis I’ve offered of distracted people and fragile movements explores how platforms reconfigure rather than replace human agency. By examining how reflexivity operates within platformised contexts, tracing its biographical unfolding rather than proclaiming wholesale transformation, we gain a more textured understanding of contemporary social life. This has meant breaking with an account of agency premised, as Savage (2021: 191) puts it,  “on this ontological temporal difference between past, enduring structures, and a contemporary contingent agency that breaks from them”. Unless we can surrender this baggage, we are left with a meta-process defined through the falling away of the past, operationalising ‘tradition’ as that which is experiencing a decline and thus squeezing out continuities through definitional fiat. The problem is not an epochal horizon, as much as ontological assumptions which lead to the epistemic mistakes of pronouncing epochal change in a grandiose and premature manner. A realist conception of the platform can acknowledge its emerging status as a condition of our social existence, while remaining clear that is we who must decide what to make of it.

#biography #criticalRealism #epochalTheorising #personalMorphogenesis #PlatformAndAgency #platformStudies #socialChange #socialRealism

After 16 years and 7 months I’ve finished Platform and Agency

I’ll do one more read through when it gets back from my proof reader, but the book I started in September 2008 with my PhD is now finished 👇

The virtue of the detraditionalisation thesis lay in its insistence on a meta-process, a change which exceeds empirical trends which can be measured. It provides, as Lundby (2009: 141) puts it, “a meta approach that makes it possible to integrate very different results of surveys and qualitative investigations into an overall coherent understanding”. The problems with the detraditionalisation thesis arose from the grandiose poetics which left it captivated by its own pronouncements about epochal change. For this reason I believe we ought to be as cautious as we can be about declaring an outcome to sociotechnical change, without dispensing with the recognition that there will be an outcome. If anything the vast investment in LLMs and the data infrastructure which supports them, intersecting with a post-pandemic political economy which appears to be leaving neoliberalism behind, heralds an intensification of change rather than a diminution (Tooze 2021, Varoufakis 2023). It’s possible this might be leading towards a perpetual polycrisis, a social order unable to stabilise itself amidst an accelerating climate catastrophe. But even this doom loop, suggested by Seymour’s (2024) notion of disaster nationalism, represents a social order of sorts, even if it’s an apocalyptic one. 

It is difficult to incorporate this horizon of crisis into our frame of reference without subordinating our analysis of the interaction phase through which it is being generated. However by  approaching platformisation through the concepts of psychobiography and personal morphogenesis, I have argued that we can avoid both grandiose (and premature) pronouncements about a ‘digital age’ and dismissive rejections of the reality of genuine change. The analysis I’ve offered of distracted people and fragile movements explores how platforms reconfigure rather than replace human agency. By examining how reflexivity operates within platformised contexts, tracing its biographical unfolding rather than proclaiming wholesale transformation, we gain a more textured understanding of contemporary social life. This has meant breaking with an account of agency premised, as Savage (2021: 191) puts it,  “on this ontological temporal difference between past, enduring structures, and a contemporary contingent agency that breaks from them”. Unless we can surrender this baggage, we are left with a meta-process defined through the falling away of the past, operationalising ‘tradition’ as that which is experiencing a decline and thus squeezing out continuities through definitional fiat. The problem is not an epochal horizon, as much as ontological assumptions which lead to the epistemic mistakes of pronouncing epochal change in a grandiose and premature manner. A realist conception of the platform can acknowledge its emerging status as a condition of our social existence, while remaining clear that is we who must decide what to make of it.

#biography #criticalRealism #epochalTheorising #personalMorphogenesis #PlatformAndAgency #platformStudies #socialChange #socialRealism

After 16 years and 7 months I’ve finished Platform and Agency

I’ll do one more read through when it gets back from my proof reader, but the book I started in September 2008 with my PhD is now finished 👇

The virtue of the detraditionalisation thesis lay in its insistence on a meta-process, a change which exceeds empirical trends which can be measured. It provides, as Lundby (2009: 141) puts it, “a meta approach that makes it possible to integrate very different results of surveys and qualitative investigations into an overall coherent understanding”. The problems with the detraditionalisation thesis arose from the grandiose poetics which left it captivated by its own pronouncements about epochal change. For this reason I believe we ought to be as cautious as we can be about declaring an outcome to sociotechnical change, without dispensing with the recognition that there will be an outcome. If anything the vast investment in LLMs and the data infrastructure which supports them, intersecting with a post-pandemic political economy which appears to be leaving neoliberalism behind, heralds an intensification of change rather than a diminution (Tooze 2021, Varoufakis 2023). It’s possible this might be leading towards a perpetual polycrisis, a social order unable to stabilise itself amidst an accelerating climate catastrophe. But even this doom loop, suggested by Seymour’s (2024) notion of disaster nationalism, represents a social order of sorts, even if it’s an apocalyptic one. 

It is difficult to incorporate this horizon of crisis into our frame of reference without subordinating our analysis of the interaction phase through which it is being generated. However by  approaching platformisation through the concepts of psychobiography and personal morphogenesis, I have argued that we can avoid both grandiose (and premature) pronouncements about a ‘digital age’ and dismissive rejections of the reality of genuine change. The analysis I’ve offered of distracted people and fragile movements explores how platforms reconfigure rather than replace human agency. By examining how reflexivity operates within platformised contexts, tracing its biographical unfolding rather than proclaiming wholesale transformation, we gain a more textured understanding of contemporary social life. This has meant breaking with an account of agency premised, as Savage (2021: 191) puts it,  “on this ontological temporal difference between past, enduring structures, and a contemporary contingent agency that breaks from them”. Unless we can surrender this baggage, we are left with a meta-process defined through the falling away of the past, operationalising ‘tradition’ as that which is experiencing a decline and thus squeezing out continuities through definitional fiat. The problem is not an epochal horizon, as much as ontological assumptions which lead to the epistemic mistakes of pronouncing epochal change in a grandiose and premature manner. A realist conception of the platform can acknowledge its emerging status as a condition of our social existence, while remaining clear that is we who must decide what to make of it.

#biography #criticalRealism #epochalTheorising #personalMorphogenesis #PlatformAndAgency #platformStudies #socialChange #socialRealism

#bookReview; a new category of #blogs from #MoonLitPress! We review and recommend "To Travel Well, Travel Light" by Mary Coday Edwards. Edwards is at once a deep thinker and deeply spiritual. This extraordinary memoir recounts Edwards’ global quest for religious belonging.

https://blog.moonlitpress.org/To-Travel-Well-Travel-Light

#wordsByTerryl #bookwyrm #religion #sbnr
#writing
#SpiritualNotReligious
#CriticalRealism
#SurvivingChristianity
#JungianSpirituality
#JesusMovement

#bookReview; a new category of #blogs from #MoonLitPress! We review and recommend "To Travel Well, Travel Light" by Mary Coday Edwards. Edwards is at once a deep thinker and deeply spiritual. This extraordinary memoir recounts Edwards’ global quest for religious belonging.

https://blog.moonlitpress.org/To-Travel-Well-Travel-Light

#wordsByTerryl #bookwyrm #religion #sbnr
#writing
#SpiritualNotReligious
#CriticalRealism
#SurvivingChristianity
#JungianSpirituality
#JesusMovement

#bookReview; a new category of #blogs from #MoonLitPress! We review and recommend "To Travel Well, Travel Light" by Mary Coday Edwards. Edwards is at once a deep thinker and deeply spiritual. This extraordinary memoir recounts Edwards’ global quest for religious belonging.

https://blog.moonlitpress.org/To-Travel-Well-Travel-Light

#wordsByTerryl #bookwyrm #religion #sbnr
#writing
#SpiritualNotReligious
#CriticalRealism
#SurvivingChristianity
#JungianSpirituality
#JesusMovement

#bookReview; a new category of #blogs from #MoonLitPress! We review and recommend "To Travel Well, Travel Light" by Mary Coday Edwards. Edwards is at once a deep thinker and deeply spiritual. This extraordinary memoir recounts Edwards’ global quest for religious belonging.

https://blog.moonlitpress.org/To-Travel-Well-Travel-Light

#wordsByTerryl #bookwyrm #religion #sbnr
#writing
#SpiritualNotReligious
#CriticalRealism
#SurvivingChristianity
#JungianSpirituality
#JesusMovement

#bookReview; a new category of #blogs from #MoonLitPress! We review and recommend "To Travel Well, Travel Light" by Mary Coday Edwards. Edwards is at once a deep thinker and deeply spiritual. This extraordinary memoir recounts Edwards’ global quest for religious belonging.

https://blog.moonlitpress.org/To-Travel-Well-Travel-Light

#wordsByTerryl #bookwyrm #religion #sbnr
#writing
#SpiritualNotReligious
#CriticalRealism
#SurvivingChristianity
#JungianSpirituality
#JesusMovement

I liked this article for many reasons, including:

- it affords supervisors/ees a portal into #CriticalRealism

- it's written to build community through troublesome #ThresholdConcepts

Thinking like a critical realist: getting through the portal. Journal of Critical Realism https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2025.2458550

I liked this article for many reasons, including:

- it affords supervisors/ees a portal into #CriticalRealism

- it's written to build community through troublesome #ThresholdConcepts

Thinking like a critical realist: getting through the portal. Journal of Critical Realism https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2025.2458550

I liked this article for many reasons, including:

- it affords supervisors/ees a portal into #CriticalRealism

- it's written to build community through troublesome #ThresholdConcepts

Thinking like a critical realist: getting through the portal. Journal of Critical Realism https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2025.2458550

I liked this article for many reasons, including:

- it affords supervisors/ees a portal into #CriticalRealism

- it's written to build community through troublesome #ThresholdConcepts

Thinking like a critical realist: getting through the portal. Journal of Critical Realism https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2025.2458550

I liked this article for many reasons, including:

- it affords supervisors/ees a portal into #CriticalRealism

- it's written to build community through troublesome #ThresholdConcepts

Thinking like a critical realist: getting through the portal. Journal of Critical Realism https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2025.2458550

A humanistic approach to #GAI:

"humans communicate on the basis of word-world relationships, [...] AI technologies [are] to word-word'

#AcWri
#ArtificialIntelligence
#CompositionStudies
#Humanities
#CriticalRealism
#WhatMakesWritingAcademic
#Emancipation
#AppliedLinguistics
#HigherEd

https://rdcu.be/d3AMw

"Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change"
#Humanism

#ExplanatoryCritique

#CriticalRealism

#Emancipation

#AcWri

#AppliedLinguistics

#SocioLinguistics

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641

"Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change"
#Humanism

#ExplanatoryCritique

#CriticalRealism

#Emancipation

#AcWri

#AppliedLinguistics

#SocioLinguistics

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641

"Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change"
#Humanism

#ExplanatoryCritique

#CriticalRealism

#Emancipation

#AcWri

#AppliedLinguistics

#SocioLinguistics

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641

"Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change"
#Humanism

#ExplanatoryCritique

#CriticalRealism

#Emancipation

#AcWri

#AppliedLinguistics

#SocioLinguistics

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641

"Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change"
#Humanism

#ExplanatoryCritique

#CriticalRealism

#Emancipation

#AcWri

#AppliedLinguistics

#SocioLinguistics

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/humanism-and-democratic-criticism/9780231122641

"A rational case for a critical realist theory of academic writing" has today been accepted for publication in the Journal of #CriticalRealism

Basically, #AcademicWriting
must be emancipatory, educative, committed to truth.

Hoaxes, #IELTS, #GAI
don't meet the criteria.

#AcWri
#ExplanatoryCritique

"A rational case for a critical realist theory of academic writing" has today been accepted for publication in the Journal of #CriticalRealism

Basically, #AcademicWriting
must be emancipatory, educative, committed to truth.

Hoaxes, #IELTS, #GAI
don't meet the criteria.

#AcWri
#ExplanatoryCritique

"A rational case for a critical realist theory of academic writing" has today been accepted for publication in the Journal of #CriticalRealism

Basically, #AcademicWriting
must be emancipatory, educative, committed to truth.

Hoaxes, #IELTS, #GAI
don't meet the criteria.

#AcWri
#ExplanatoryCritique

"A rational case for a critical realist theory of academic writing" has today been accepted for publication in the Journal of #CriticalRealism

Basically, #AcademicWriting
must be emancipatory, educative, committed to truth.

Hoaxes, #IELTS, #GAI
don't meet the criteria.

#AcWri
#ExplanatoryCritique

"A rational case for a critical realist theory of academic writing" has today been accepted for publication in the Journal of #CriticalRealism

Basically, #AcademicWriting
must be emancipatory, educative, committed to truth.

Hoaxes, #IELTS, #GAI
don't meet the criteria.

#AcWri
#ExplanatoryCritique

"one must assume not only that there is a way of determining [...], what a better world might look like, but also that there is a way for this ‘concrete utopian’ vision to become shared [...]"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767430.2019.1638133

#normativity #SocialJustice #MoralRealism #Democracy

#CriticalRealism

"one must assume not only that there is a way of determining [...], what a better world might look like, but also that there is a way for this ‘concrete utopian’ vision to become shared [...]"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767430.2019.1638133

#normativity #SocialJustice #MoralRealism #Democracy

#CriticalRealism

"one must assume not only that there is a way of determining [...], what a better world might look like, but also that there is a way for this ‘concrete utopian’ vision to become shared [...]"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767430.2019.1638133

#normativity #SocialJustice #MoralRealism #Democracy

#CriticalRealism

"one must assume not only that there is a way of determining [...], what a better world might look like, but also that there is a way for this ‘concrete utopian’ vision to become shared [...]"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767430.2019.1638133

#normativity #SocialJustice #MoralRealism #Democracy

#CriticalRealism

"one must assume not only that there is a way of determining [...], what a better world might look like, but also that there is a way for this ‘concrete utopian’ vision to become shared [...]"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767430.2019.1638133

#normativity #SocialJustice #MoralRealism #Democracy

#CriticalRealism

Currently reading #AllAboutLove by #bellhooks

Linking it to #AcWri and #CriticalRealism

I🧡Laurel Richardson's approach to academic writing generally and this, specifically, because of the focus on writer agency, choice, & the complexities of referring to the 'world' (or REALITY).

#AcWri
#AcademicLiteracies
#ResearchWriting
#AcademicChatter
#PhD
#ArtificialIntelligence
#CriticalRealism

Following our recent symposium we are inviting short blog posts (750-1500 words) reflecting on the intellectual legacy of Margaret Archer. These will be published on the Critical Realism Network blog. Here are some examples of themes these posts could address:

1. Archer’s Place in Sociological Theory:  the ways in which Archer’s ideas have been received, challenged, and transformed within the discipline. 
2. Archer’s Work within the Larger Dialogues of Critical Realism: the ways in which Archer’s ideas have contributed to and challenged the critical realist tradition. 
3. The Global Reception of Archer’s Work: the ways in which Archer’s ideas have been received, interpreted and adapted in different places. We want to explore both Archer’s role in the internationalization of British sociology, as well as the reception of her work in different countries of the Global North and Global South.
4. Archer’s Work Beyond Critical Realism: the ways in which Archer’s work has been influenced by and has influenced traditions, debates and issues beyond critical realism, such as pragmatism, moral philosophy and the philosophy of science.

We welcome submissions from scholars at all stages of their careers, including graduate students and early-career researchers. We also encourage interdisciplinary perspectives and contributions from scholars working in related fields, such as philosophy, anthropology, and political science.

If you’re interested in submitting a post, please contact Mark Carrigan with your idea initially.

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/08/08/%f0%9f%93%8dcall-for-blog-posts-the-legacy-of-margaret-archer/

#criticalRealism #margaretArcher #MorphogeneticApproach #socialMorphogenesis #socialRealism

What do you understand by the verbs 'construe' & 'construct'?

Which would you use & why to describe the way language (or we/#AI) refers to/represents reality?
#CriticalRealism

#Hermeneutics

#CriticalDiscourseAnalysis

#Contructionism

#CriticalTheory

#PostStructuralism

#Deconstruction

#Discourse

#LLM

August 3rd, 10am-5pm at the University of Warwick

Margaret Archer’s work has had a profound impact on social theory, challenging and reshaping our understanding of agency, structure, culture and their interplay in producing social change. Her contributions to the discipline have been wide-ranging, from critical interventions in conceptual debates to discussions about the nature of our times. Archer’s engagements with other thinkers, both within and outside the critical realist tradition, have shaped contemporary sociological debates.

Karim Knio – The Immanent Causality Morphogenetic Approach (TBC)

Juan David Parra – Archer’s Morphogenesis and the Political Economy of Education Systems

Krzysztof Wielecki – The presence of Margaret Scotford Archer in Polish sociology

Lakshman Wimalasena – Reflexivity in Practice: Advancing the Working Experience through a Reflexive [Co-Design] Intervention

Richard Remelie – Measuring reflexivity

Ka Lok Yip – Archerian Realism and Phenomenology: Friends or Foes?

Anzhela Popyk – Structure and Agency: Transnational and School Transitions of Ukrainian Forced Migrant Adolescents in Poland

Catherine Hastings – Developing critical realist empirical research using Archer’s explanatory framework

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/07/18/%f0%9f%93%8djoin-us-on-august-3rd-to-celebrate-the-intellectual-legacy-of-margaret-archer/

#criticalRealism #margaretArcher #MorphogeneticApproach #socialRealism

"[...] if our need for fossil fuels is an addiction, the addicts are being told to stop while the dealers are getting government support!" 🔥
(Andrew Sayer, p. 334)

#WhyWeCantAffordTheRich - a book on #SocioEconomics that keeps on giving

#ClimateEmergency
#CostOfGreedCrisis

#CriticalRealism

Sharing 2 talks I'll be giving in the coming months because they both excite me & terrify me.

I'd welcome informed critical & constructive reactions to both abstracts.

#IACR2024
#METM24

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/events/iacr-2024

https://www.metmeetings.org/en/keynote-speakers:1606

#CriticalRealism #AcWri #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #GAI

Today also made me reflect on our article, the 'limits of #translingualism':

https://apples.journal.fi/article/view/114738

I attended a UK academic webinar on 'decolonising the university and linguistic diversity' and couldn't help feeling how introspective and conservative it was - no mention of deep colonial structures (such as capitalism), powers (eg prejudice), political mechanisms (eg visas, brexit, fees), agencies (the choices we make) or how change is actioned beyond being 'reflexive'

🤔

#CriticalRealism

It should be accessible to most universities via the Cambridge University Press website.

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/04/02/%f0%9f%93%8dout-now-margaret-archers-morphogenesis-answers-its-critics/

#criticalRealism #margaretArcher #MorphogeneticApproach

#LouisCaruana - #CriticalRealism in #Science and #Theology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqYI28g2n8Q

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Metaphysics #Realism #AntiRealism #Knowledge #Solipsism #Pragmatism #CommonSense #Holism #Naturalism #Religion #CharlesSandersPeirce #Peirce #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Tickets available here: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/one-day-symposium-on-the-legacy-of-margaret-archer/ abstract submission details below:

We are delighted to announce a one-day symposium dedicated to exploring and celebrating the legacy of Margaret Archer, one of the most influential sociological thinkers of our time. The aim of the symposium is to engage with and critically assess Archer’s contributions to social theory, her influences and engagements outside critical realism, the global reception of her work, and her place within the larger tradition of critical realism.

Margaret Archer’s work has had a profound impact on social theory, challenging and reshaping our understanding of agency, structure, culture and their interplay in producing social change. Her contributions to the discipline have been wide-ranging, from critical interventions in conceptual debates to discussions about the nature of our times. Archer’s engagements with other thinkers, both within and outside the critical realist tradition, have shaped contemporary sociological debates.

We invite papers that critically engage with Archer’s work on the following themes:

1. Archer’s Place in Sociological Theory: 

We encourage papers that explore the ways in which Archer’s ideas have been received, challenged, and transformed within the discipline. 

1. Archer’s Work within the Larger Dialogues of Critical Realism:  

We invite papers that critically assess the ways in which Archer’s ideas have contributed to and challenged the critical realist tradition. 

1. The Global Reception of Archer’s Work: 

We encourage papers that explore the ways in which Archer’s ideas have been received, interpreted and adapted in different places. We want to explore both Archer’s role in the internationalization of British sociology, as well as the reception of her work in different countries of the Global North and Global South.

1. Archer’s Work Beyond Critical Realism: 

We welcome papers that explore the ways in which Archer’s work has been influenced by and has influenced traditions, debates and issues beyond critical realism, such as pragmatism, moral philosophy and the philosophy of science.

We welcome submissions from scholars at all stages of their careers, including graduate students and early-career researchers. We also encourage interdisciplinary perspectives and contributions from scholars working in related fields, such as philosophy, anthropology, and political science.

The conference will take place on August 3rd, 2024, at The University of Warwick. The deadline for submission of 300 word abstracts is April 30th, and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by May 15th.

Please note we will seek to accommodate online talks but there will be a limited number of places available for this. Specify in your application if you want to participate remotely. If we don’t receive this notification we will assume you intend to present in person.

We look forward to welcoming you to this exciting conference and to engaging in lively discussions about the legacy of Margaret Archer’s work.

To contact the organisers (Sebastian Raza and Mark Carrigan) or to submit your abstracts please use this form. Please note this is not a registration form for the event. It will be a ticketed event advertised through the British Sociological Association website from May onwards.

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/02/26/call-for-papers-one-day-symposium-on-the-legacy-of-margaret-archer-august-3rd-university-of-warwick/

#criticalRealism #margaretArcher #MorphogeneticApproach

At 4pm (UK) on Thursday 25 January, I'm giving a #IOEWritingSeminar on how the theory of #CriticalRealism helps me make sense of #WhatMakesWritingAcademic.

Chaired by my #OpenUniversity colleague Dr Jackie Tuck.

#AcademicLiteracies #AcWri #tleap #theory #OpenAccess

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2024/jan/critical-realism-and-academic-writing-why-theory-matters-practice

🎶
an "academic fashion show, with authors invited on the stage to demonstrate the cut of their chosen #theory" (Playfair, R., 2023)🎶

Feat. Dr Jackie Tuck on #AcademicLiteracies & me on #CriticalRealism

#BookReview #CriticalRealism #AcademicLiteracies #AcWri #AppliedLinguistics

https://www.esptodayjournal.org/pdf/january_2024/book_review/1_Rob_Playfair.pdf