Real Talk Scholars

Research Fellow, Uni of Bristol, @uob-policystudies.bsky.social • UK Politics • English devo • spatial inequality • place-based policy • healthy urban development • critical realism https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/jack-newman

Professor, author, former rocker. My books: "The Invention of Religion in Japan," "The Myth of Disenchantment," and "Metamodernism" http://bit.ly/3dzW6ux

I write about social theory, social ontology and political economy. Personal capacity etc. Find open access versions of my work at https://eldervass.com/home-3/publications/

Try https://criticalrealismnetwork.org/ for our blog, links to local and online groups, interviews with critical realists, and loads of other resources

I’m a senior lecturer at the School of Education, Bath Spa University. I’m interested in open education in the broader sense with an interest in meaningful social innovation that respects different ways of doing and being. Critical pedagogy is my ethos.

Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and not all that short l Critical realism l Critical theory l Historical sociology I Violence l (Recovering) academic l Curmudgeon l Bluesky amateur