- Title
- What’s in a conference theme?: Some reflections on critical realist research and its emergence in Africa over a period of 20+ years
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2022
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/370739
- Identifier
- vital:66372
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2023.2146923"
- Description
- In keeping with the 2021 IACR Conference theme (Re) Envisaging Emancipatory Research, Science and Practice, this paper reviews over fifty instances of critical realist research in Africa which have sought to establish emancipatory research praxis by using critical realism to underlabour a range of applied studies in a diversity of disciplines and countries. The initiators of this research have been drawn to critical realism for several reasons, most notably its return to ontology, its interest in transformed, transformative praxis, and its potential for addressing knowledge and experiences exclusions. The paper ends with a reflection on ‘What's in a Conference Theme', returning to the earlier 2012 IACR conference hosted in Africa, and the 2021 conference’s focus on emancipatory research. It argues both for the deepening of conversations between critical realism and Africana Critical Theory; and for the grounding of these conversations in the voices and power of the people in our communities
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (19 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Critical Realism
- Relation
- Lotz-Sisitka, H., 2022. What’s in a conference theme? Some reflections on critical realist research and its emergence in Africa over a period of 20+ years. Journal of Critical Realism, 21(5), pp.483-501
- Relation
- Journal of Critical Realism volume 21 number 5 p. 483 2022 1572-5138
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- Closed Access
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Global Change Social Learning Systems Development: Transformative Learning and Green Skills Learning (ELRC)
Lotz-Sisitka, Heila (Distinguished Professor)
RU Department of Education
SDG 04. Quality Education
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