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TY - JOUR
T1 - Looking forward to new realist debates
AU - Sayer, Andrew
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This response to Kevin Cox (2013) links questions relating to critical realism to recent debates on assemblage theory in geography. It argues that similar issues about ontology have been raised in the latter’s version of realism, though they have been answered differently. A key difference between the two is assemblage theory’s rejection of internal relations in favour of a more restrictive ontology of universalexternal relations. I argue that we need to avoid both the totalizing view of the world implied in some of Cox’s (2013) comments and the external relations only ontology of assemblage theory.
AB - This response to Kevin Cox (2013) links questions relating to critical realism to recent debates on assemblage theory in geography. It argues that similar issues about ontology have been raised in the latter’s version of realism, though they have been answered differently. A key difference between the two is assemblage theory’s rejection of internal relations in favour of a more restrictive ontology of universalexternal relations. I argue that we need to avoid both the totalizing view of the world implied in some of Cox’s (2013) comments and the external relations only ontology of assemblage theory.
KW - assemblage approach
KW - external and internal relations
KW - ontology
KW - realism
U2 - 10.1177/2043820613485050
DO - 10.1177/2043820613485050
M3 - Journal article
VL - 3
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - Dialogues in Human Geography
JF - Dialogues in Human Geography
SN - 2043-8206
IS - 1
ER -