Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:01:19 +0000 From: Mervyn Hartwig <mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk> Subject: BHA: Want to be a Creative Writer? -- Write for JCR Dear friend of critical realism, We are writing to invite you to support Journal of Critical Realism (JCR) in the best way possible: by contributing it. Thanks largely to the splendid efforts of its contributors, JCR has developed from a newsletter to an established academic journal in six short years. From 2004 it will be published, promoted and distributed by Brill Academic Publishers, an internationally oriented publishing firm located in the Netherlands. Brill will put it online with Ingenta, where it will be fully cross-referenced and located in the mainstream of the academic search scene the world over. We expect JCR under the Brill regime to rapidly acquire a significant international presence in institutional libraries. 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With all best wishes, Mervyn Hartwig Kathryn Dean Karl Maton Jamie Morgan Jenneth Parker JCR EDITORIAL TEAM www.journalofcriticalrealism.org Please reply to: Mervyn Hartwig <mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AVAILABLE FROM NEXT WEEK: *JOURNAL OF CRITICAL REALISM* Vol 2 No 1 November 2003 ARTICLES GRAHAM CLARKE, Fairbairn and Macmurray: psychoanalytic studies and critical realism This paper argues that the relatively new academic subject--psychoanalytic studies--could benefit from critical realist thinking. Work by David Will on psychoanalysis as a science from a critical realist perspective is reviewed and arguments for Fairbairn's object relations theory as a prime candidate are developed. It also argues that recent work by Andrew Collier on Being and Worth, which makes use of the work of John Macmurray, might provide a good basis for a critical realist object relations theory. Part of this argument concerns the strong parallels argued to exist between Fairbairn and Macmurray. As such the possibility of a multi-self object relations model of the psyche within a critical realist framework is raised to contrast with the Freudian model that often appears by default. STEFAN MORÉN & BJÖRN BLOM, Explaining human change: on generative mechanisms in social work practice The purpose of this article is to discuss the possibilities of explaining the way results, i. e. client effects, in social work practice emerge from certain interventions. Critical realism and one of its key concepts, 'generative mechanisms', is suggested as a useful perspective to reveal the intervening process and explain the way human change unfolds and is achieved in social work practice. First, some trends in evaluation of social work practice will be outlined. Thereafter, some characteristics of the meta-perspective critical realism will be outlined, and its relevance for the study of social work practice discussed. Finally, a case study based on this perspective is presented, and also some findings in terms of a set of plausible generative mechanisms that were inferred from the empirical material. SEAN CREAVEN, Marx and Bhaskar on the dialectics of freedom Bhaskar's dialectical incarnation of critical realism has especially placed the problem of human emancipation at the heart of his project. Bhaskar's contribution here is to grasp human emancipation in terms of a dialectic of universalization from 'primal scream' to 'universal free flourishing'. In doing so, Bhaskar has reintroduced to emancipatory social theory the concept of progressive directionality in social development, which was also central to Marx's historical materialism. This article will argue two main points. First, that Bhaskar's dialectic of emancipation is both theoretically defensible, and of crucial importance at the contemporary global conjuncture, providing necessary philosophical underlabouring for the emancipatory potential inherent in late capitalist modernity. Second, that Marx's historical materialism provides Bhaskar's dialectic of freedom with sociological flesh, in the absence of which it cannot fully substantiate the concept of progressive geo-historical directionality which lies at its root. The emancipatory thrust of Bhaskar's dialectic of freedom, when sociologically substantiated by Marx's dialectics of forces and relations of production and capital and class, will be illustrated by considering the objective prospects for human emancipation at the start of the new century. JAMIE MORGAN Empire inhuman? The social ontology of global theory Hardt and Negri's highly influential neo-Marxist text Empire is primarily a theory of social ontology. The sustainability of this social ontology is therefore an important issue in terms of assessing whether the concept of Empire should be taken seriously as an adequate theorisation of global order. I argue that Empire constitutes an asthenotheory (a theory 'without strength') on the basis that its social ontology is highly problematic in five ways. Empire commits a basic conflation of reality and theory that undermines its critique of postmodernism as well as its subsequent social ontology (that actually repeats postmodernist errors). It is parasitic on a dialectical understanding of social reality but denies dialectics. It fails to articulate a differentiated social ontology, and thus collapses the stratified differentiation of aspects of the social, and of the distinction between the human and the social s/he reproduces, that contradicts Empire's interest in transformation and emancipation. Its social ontology is therefore inhuman. Since its social ontology is defective it is unable to provide an effective framework of analysis of empirical cases. It is in addition, and because of its social ontology, non-falsifiable. Its conceptualization of power is overly focussed at the systemic level (Lukes' third dimension). To illustrate the argument I provide an extended analysis of the debate over weapon's of mass destruction and the justification for the recent invasion of Iraq. DEBATE JONATHAN JOSEPH, Re-stating hegemonic theory BOB JESSOP, Putting hegemony in its place REVIEWS BRIAN PINKSTONE, Reorienting economics: new horizons NEIL CURRY, Mediating realism and sociology GARRY POTTER, Critical realist strengths and weaknesses ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Journal of Critical Realism began life in 1998 as the newsletter of the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) entitled Alethia. IACR was established in 1997 to foster the discussion, propagation and development of critical realist approaches to understanding and changing the world. Alethia's main focus from the outset was the publication of scholarly articles. In 2001 Alethia gave way to Journal of Critical Realism (incorporating Alethia) (unrefereed). From November 2002 Journal of Critical Realism will be peer reviewed, appearing in a new format and series. Critical realist philosophy and social theory elaborate a general conceptual schema or meta-theory, via the immanent critique of other traditions and its own previous phases and the transcendental analysis of scientific and other human practices, for emancipatory science, i.e. science that makes genuine discoveries and can therefore help to promote human flourishing. It combines and reconciles epistemic relativism (all knowledge is socially produced, or transitive, and fallible) with judgemental rationalism (there are rational criteria for preferring one judgement or theory to another, genuine knowledge of the causally and/or existentially intransitive objects of science is possible) and ontological depth (the world is intransitive or irreducible to epistemology, transfactual or open, and stratified and emergent, hence differentiated and changing). On such a view of the world, there is more to what is than what is known, more to laws of nature than regular succession, more to society than human agents and more to human agents than effects of society; and objective explanations need not be practically neutral. Itself plural, open, and developing, critical realism is compatible with, and promotes, a wide range of emancipatory research programmes (which incorporate additional premises), and explicitly espouses methodological pluralism; every science is a science only insofar as it deploys a methodology appropriate to the specificities of its object. Critical realism is accordingly also plural in its political affinities within a broad emancipatory remit. Emancipation refers to the historical process of freedom whereby people remove constraints on the fulfilment of their needs and seek to create the positive social conditions for the full flourishing of their potential as a species. The theory of explanatory critiques and the dialectics of freedom (which are substantive as well as formal) suggest broadly how a unity of theory and political practice might be effected by movements for change, with realist science and social science playing an important role; while the recent work of a leading critical realist philosopher, Roy Bhaskar, elaborates a theory 'within the bounds of secularism, consistent with all faiths and no faith', of the spiritual presuppositions of emancipatory projects. Critical realism is, indeed, arguably above all a philosophy and social theory of emancipation which seeks to grasp the historical process of freedom in thought and promote it in practice. It is coming to prominence within the academy simultaneously with the rise of a global movement for human emancipation which shares many of its insights. Both are premised on the understanding that a new human future of social justice, peace, care, solidarity, and ecological sustainability is possible and necessary; without such a future, the future as such is in jeopardy. Journal of Critical Realism provides a forum for scholars wishing to promote realist emancipatory philosophy, social theory and science on an interdisciplinary and international basis, and for those who wish to engage with such an approach. Critical realism's intellectual power and vitality, together with the sheer range of its concerns across the gamut of human endeavour, will ensure that this leads to no inward looking provincialism. We envisage that much critical realist scholarship and research will continue to be published elsewhere and will actively promote exchanges, friendly as well as polemical, with other approaches. Editorial policy We will endeavour to promote, specifically: " Lively and original research and scholarship within the remit of the aims of the IACR " A genuine internationalism, in terms of subject matter, domicile of contributors, recommended pricing policy, and assistance to contributors with English language expression where necessary " Gender balance among contributors, and a flourishing younger generation of scholars " An authentic pluralism, both methodologically and in terms of political affinity " Interdisciplinarity of approach in keeping with the stratification, relationality and processuality of the world " Human emancipation-an accelerating and mutually enriching dialectic between critical realist philosophy, scientific research pursued within a range of research programmes (including the elaboration of concrete utopias), and movements for liberation Editor: Mervyn Hartwig Editorial Committee: Kathryn Dean, Karl Maton, Jamie Morgan, Jenneth Parker Editorial Advisory Board Margaret Archer (Warwick) Ted Benton (Essex), Roy Bhaskar (London) Bill Bowring (London) Thomas Brante (Örebro) Derek Brereton (Michigan) Gideon Calder (Newport) Bob Carter (Warwick) Noel Castree (Manchester), Alexander Clark (Glasgow), Andrew Collier (Southampton) Sean Creaven (UWE, Bristol) Justin Cruickshank (Birmingham) James Daly (Belfast) Berth Danermark (Örebro) Kathryn Dean (London) Hans Despain (Wesleyan), Radha D'Souza (Waikato), Peter Dickens (Cambridge, UK) Howard Engelskirchen (WSU) Pär Engholm (Uppsala) Hans Ehrbar (Utah) Norman Fairclough (Lancaster) Marshall Feldman (URI), Steve Fleetwood (Lancaster) Martha Gimenez (Colorado) Ruth Groff (York, Ca) Andrew Hagen (Rutgers) Cynthia Lins Hamlin (Recife) Gil-Soo Han (Monash) Nick Hostettler (London) Bob Jessop (Lancaster) Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Sussex) Jonathan Joseph (Aberystwyth) Anne Junor (UNSW, Au) Mansoor Kazi (Huddersfield) Ruth Kowalzyck (Lancaster) Hugh Lacey (Drexel) Julie Lawson (Amsterdam) Tony Lawson (Cambridge) Paul Lewis (Cambridge) Chris Lloyd (New England, Au) Terrence Lo (Hong Kong) José López (Nottingham) Gary MacLennan (QUT, Au) Karl Maton (Leicester) Andrew Mearman (New York) John Mingers (Warwick) Günter Minnerup (NSW, Au) Maria Mitropoulos (QUT) Richard Moody (Allegheny) Jamie Morgan (Manchester) Ross Morrow (Newcastle, Aus) Viren Viren Murthy (Chicago) Tobin Nellhaus (Yale) Peter Nielsen (Roskilde, Dk), Caroline New (Bristol) Alan Norrie (Kings, London) Peter Nielsen (Roskilde, Dk) Chris Norris (Cardiff) Wendy Olsen (Manchester) William Outhwaite (Sussex) Heikki Patomäki (Helsinki) Ray Pawson (Leeds), Ian Parker (Manchester) Jenneth Parker (Southbank) Brian Pinkstone (Western Sydney) Steve Pratten (Kings, London) Doug Porpora (Drexel) Garry Potter (Wilfrid Laurier, Ca) Jonathan Pratschke (Trinity, Dublin/ Salerno) Hans Puehretmayer (Vienna) Amit Ron (Minnesota) Andrew Sayer (Lancaster) Graham Scambler (London) Rachel Sharp (London) Tone Skinningsrud (Norway) Mark Smith (Open, UK) Manindra Thakur (Delhi) Subramaniyam Venkatraman (Chennai, Ind) Sean Vertigan (London) Ian Verstegen (Philadelphia) Colin Wight (Sheffield) IACR Secretariat and Council Andrew Sayer (President), Steve Fleetwood (General Secretary), Ruth Kowalzyck (Treasurer), Mervyn Hartwig (Journal Editor), Cynthia Lins Hamlin (Recife), Julie Lawson (Amsterdam), Tony Lawson (Cambridge), Caroline New (Bristol), Peter Nielsen (Roskilde), Wendy Olsen (Manchester), Heikki Patomäki (Helsinki), Brian Pinkstone (Western Sydney), Doug Porpora (Drexel), Andrew Sayer (Lancaster), Tone Skinningsrud (Norway), Subramaniyam Venkatraman (Chennai, Ind). 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