A Kind of Conclusion Against Full-Stops and Bookends?

Maisuria, Alpesh; Banfield, Grant

Abstract

Given the intention of this edited collection is to capture the stories of students, researchers, and academics grappling with critical realism, as the Editors, we thought it appropriate for at least two reasons that we do the same. First, if reasons are causes, as Bhaskar insisted, then our stories will (hopefully) give some causal context to the book. Second, and more importantly perhaps, is that our particular stories might be useful to others – especially those, like us, who draw on the work of Marx or are open to the possibilities that Marx might offer. In this chapter, we narrate our respective critical realism journeys (and their intersections) from our PhDs and beyond. This e-dialogue draws from a conversation that has been ongoing for more than 13 years. We offer this as a conclusion to the collection of works. But we are wary of closure, full-stops, and bookends. So, in the spirit of both the Marxian and Bhaskarian dialectic, the conclusion, we hope, serves as an invitation to others to come and explore critical realism.

• Online Publication Date: Dec 30, 2022
• Publication Date: Dec 30, 2022
• Deposit Date: Dec 2, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 1, 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Book Title: Working with Critical Realism Stories of Methodological Encounters
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003193784
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11483997