Outputs (14)

Contagion Capitalism: Pandemics in the Corporate Age (2023)
Book
Creaven, S. (2023). Contagion Capitalism: Pandemics in the Corporate Age. London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003437215

Contagion Capitalism situates the COVID-19 pandemic within the systems of global political economy and their attendant cultural modes and theorizes that these systems act as facilitators and drivers of global pandemic risk. Contagion Capitalism there... Read More about Contagion Capitalism: Pandemics in the Corporate Age.

Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19 (2023)
Book
Creaven, S. (2023). Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19. London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003437208

Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19 applies the tools of critical social theory to make sense of the COVID-19 crisis and presents a critical sociological analysis of aspects of the political and community response to... Read More about Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19.

The Pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism (2023)
Book
Creaven, S. (2023). The Pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism. London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This book is to a large degree an attempt to examine the reasons for the UK government’s internationally suboptimal performance in addressing the novel coronavirus pandemic. As such, this is conceived as a work of political and social critique. The t... Read More about The Pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism.

The ‘two marxisms’ revisited: Humanism, structuralism and realism in marxist social theory (2015)
Journal Article
Creaven, S., & Creaven, S. (2015). The ‘two marxisms’ revisited: Humanism, structuralism and realism in marxist social theory. Journal of Critical Realism, 14(1), 7-53. https://doi.org/10.1179/1572513814Y.0000000008

© W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2015. The ontological and analytical status of Marxian social theory has been a matter of fierce controversy since Marx’s death, both within and without Marxist circles. A particular source of contention has been over whethe... Read More about The ‘two marxisms’ revisited: Humanism, structuralism and realism in marxist social theory.

Resisting the theistic turn (2011)
Book Chapter
Creaven, S. (2011). Resisting the theistic turn. In M. Hartwig, & J. Morgan (Eds.), Critical Realism and Spiritualism (264-300). Routledge

Critical Realism and Spirituality contextualizes, delineates, explores and critiques the turn to spirituality and religion in critical realism, which has been under way since the mid-1990s, as well as telling its story. It provides incisive discussio... Read More about Resisting the theistic turn.

Against the spiritual turn: Marxism, realism, and critical theory (2010)
Book
Creaven, S. (2010). Against the spiritual turn: Marxism, realism, and critical theory. Routledge

Emergentist Marxism: Dialectical philosophy and social theory (2007)
Book
Creaven, S. (2007). Emergentist Marxism: Dialectical philosophy and social theory. London and New York: Routledge

On marxism and realism: A reply to Branwen Gruffyd Jones (2005)
Journal Article
Creaven, S. (2005). On marxism and realism: A reply to Branwen Gruffyd Jones. Historical Materialism, 13(2), 223-240. https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206054127219

This rejoinder sets out what Creaven's Marxism and Realism is about, and seeks to address the key aspects of Gruffydd Jones’s critique of Creaven's Marxism and Realism.

Recovering Marx for the twenty-first century (2005)
Journal Article
Creaven, S. (2005). Recovering Marx for the twenty-first century. Journal of Critical Realism, 4(1), 128-166. https://doi.org/10.1558/jocr.v4i1.128

Review of Marx by Andrew Collier.

Marx and Bhaskar on the dialectics of freedom (2003)
Journal Article
Creaven, S. (2003). Marx and Bhaskar on the dialectics of freedom. Journal of Critical Realism, 2(1), 63-93. https://doi.org/10.1558/jocr.v2i1.63

The pulse of freedom? Bhaskar's dialectic and marxism (2002)
Journal Article
Creaven, S. (2002). The pulse of freedom? Bhaskar's dialectic and marxism. Historical Materialism, 10(2), 77-141. https://doi.org/10.1163/156920602320318093

Materialism, realism and dialectics (2001)
Book Chapter
Creaven, S. (2001). Materialism, realism and dialectics. In A. Brown, S. Fleetwood, & J. M. Roberts (Eds.), Critical Realism and Marxism (131-154). London: Routledge

This book examines the relationship between critical realism and Marxism. The authors argue that critical realism and Marxism have much to gain from each other. This is the first book to address the controversial debates between critical realism and... Read More about Materialism, realism and dialectics.

Materialism, agnosticism and God (2001)
Journal Article
Creaven, S. (2001). Materialism, agnosticism and God. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 31(4), 419-448. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5914.00168

Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences (2000)
Book
Creaven, S. (2000). Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences. Routledge

This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. By constructing historical materialism as realist social theory, it becomes possible to resolve many long... Read More about Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences.