Bhaskarian✚ critical realist current

I am now in the midst of writing my second book focusing specifically on critical realism. All of my other books covered different subjects.

So I decided to put together a relatively short listing of some major approaches taken by Bhaskarian critical realists and a couple on the periphery of the discipline. Many of those not included by name on this page will be found in the miscellaneous category (much of it taken from my previous book on critical realism).

For the purposes of this enumeration, I adopted the term Bhaskarian✚ critical realist current (ᙖ✚ᙍⴽ𝕮™). There were two reasons:

First, others, besides Roy Bhaskar, were involved at various stages in the development of critical realism. I should say, this form of critical realism. There are many others. Some are fairly similar, in certain areas, to Bhaskarian✚ critical realism (ᙖ✚ᙍⴽ™). Others are quite different.

Second, Roy Bhaskar did refer to critical realism as a current. That fact is, in my opinion, deceptively simple. The term current reveals a bit of Roy’s thinking on his critical realism.

Like any current or tendency, including political ones, critical realism has a desired destination. To Roy, the goalpost was true liberty. And, indeed, Roy initiated an original version of libertarian Marxism. That project was completed—I would even say close to perfected—in his spiritual turn. But the ultimate outcome is obviously unknown.

Bhaskarian✚ critical realist current (Ram “Roy” Bhaskar) 💕

• æsthetic critical realism (Nick Wilson)

• Cambridge Social Ontology Group, reflection on natural scientific practices, and critical realism in economics (Tony Lawson et al.)

• commonist value theory for liberating life (S. A. Hamed Hosseini and Barry K. Gills)

• critical discourse analysis (Norman Fairclough et al.)

• critical humanism, influenced by Bhaskarian✚ critical realism absent moral realism (Vanesa Amaris)

• critical information theory and critical digital and social media studies (Christian Fuchs)

• critical realism in public administration (Edoardo Ongaro and Yi Yang)

• critical realist criminology (Matthew Wilkinson, Muzammil Quraishi, Lamia Irfan, and Mallory Schneuwly Purdie)

• critical realist feminism (Angela Martinez, Lee Martin, and Susan Marlow)

• critical realist literary geography (Zeynep Ceren Henriques Correia)

• critical realist mixed–methods research (Viswanath Venkatesh, Chileshe Muselela, et al.)

• critical realist perspective on ambivalences in the study of mysticism (Ali Qadir and Tatiana Tiaynen–Qadir)

• critical realist psychologies (Roger Booker et al.)

• critical realist theory of ideology (Jin Xue)

• critical social–ecological approach (Celinda Palm and Sarah E. Cornell)

• Dialectical metaRealism™ and Heartfulness Inquiry™ or The Echoing Practice™ (Mark A. Foster)

• dialectics of nature, dialectics of ecology, dialectic of organic/inorganic relations and critical materialism, ontological, epistemological, and practical materialism, ecosocialism, the metabolic rift, and realist constructionism (John Bellamy Foster)

• the ethics of care and critical realism (Galym Zhussipbek)

• intersectional critical realism (Lena Gunnarsson et al.)

• critical realist mixed–methods research (Viswanath Venkatesh, Chileshe Muselela, et al.)

• miscellaneous approaches to Bhaskarian✚ critical realism

• morphogenetic approach or Archerian critical realism and reflexive internal conversations (Margaret Scotford Archer, a cofounder of Bhaskarian✚ critical realism)

• negative dialectics (Elmar Flatschart)

• phenomenological critical realism (John M. Budd, Heather Hill, and Brooke Shannon)

• philosophy of metaReality (Roy Bhaskar)

• pragmatist critical realism (Richard Heeks, P. J. Wall, and Mark Graham)

• radical alterity (David Graeber)

• radical reality and the centering practice (Gary Hawke)

• a real common ground between critical realism and agential realism (Valentina Bortolami)

• the realist third way and metaRealism as panentheism (Mervyn Hartwig)

• realist evaluation (Ferdinand C. Mukumbang et al.)

• relational realism (Basem Adi and Charles Tilly)

• relational sociology (Pierpaolo Donati)

• strategic–relational approach, cultural political economy (ℭꝔĘ™), and metaphysical reflections (Ngai–Ling Sum and Bob Jessop)

• a critical realist approach to sustainable global citizenship (Jesús Granados–Sánchez)

• social theory of resilience (Anthony Mckeown, Dang Hai Bui, and John Glenn)

• theory of deep transformations through degrowth (Hubert Buch–Hansen, Max Koch, and Iana Nesterova)

• visionary realism, informed by Bhaskarian✚ critical realism (Nicholas Hedlund)