Critical Realism and the Strategic-Relational Approach

Montiel, Héctor Cuadra

doi:10.1558/jocr.2007.v6i1.84

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“…Several critical sociological positions can do this and Gray (2009, 2013) makes the case for adopting Jessop’s (2008) strategic-relational approach to analyse youth penality. This integrates the theoretical insights of Foucauldian governmentality with that of state-centred neo-Marxism 12 to develop a ‘critical realist governmentality’ framework for analysis; this is further reinforced by Jessop’s (2003: 138) articulation of a ‘methodological commitment’ to the development of a strategic-relational approach via critical realism (see also Montiel, 2007).…”

Section: From Governance Towards a Critical Realist Youth Penalitymentioning

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Shifting sands: The reconfiguration of neoliberal youth penality

Gray

Smith

2019

Theoretical Criminology

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This article begins by tracing the emergence of ‘therapeutic surveillance’ as a new formula for neoliberal disciplinary power. It maps and interrogates the reconfiguration of a hybrid array of neoliberal rationalities and technologies for the penal governance of young people who offend. It then engages with the challenges posed by critical realists to the governmentality position by questioning how human agency can contest, subvert and resist the dystopian reach of ‘therapeutic surveillance’ in action. While ‘therapeutic surveillance’ is steeped in a disciplinary logic of individualization and responsibilization, we argue that it also opens the space for a more transformative youth penality to be articulated; one which challenges the constraints of structural disadvantage in the pursuit of social justice. The article concludes by arguing that newly emerging youth justice configurations which have appeared in response to dramatic cuts in public spending offer a plausible or transformative challenge to the regulatory logic of neoliberal youth penality.

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Section: From Governance Towards a Critical Realist Youth Penalitymentioning

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Shifting sands: The reconfiguration of neoliberal youth penality

Gray

Smith

2019

Theoretical Criminology

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Examining non-Indigenous teacher perceptions of Indigenous students in Taiwan through a Strategic Relational Approach

Couch

Nesterova

Nguyen

2023

Asia Pacific Educ. Rev.

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This article examines non-Indigenous teachers’ expectations of, perceptions of, knowledge about, and attitudes towards Indigenous students in Taiwan using a Strategic Relational Approach. Drawing on survey data that combined Likert-scale responses with reflexive, open-ended questions, we found that whilst teacher survey responses indicated a normatively positive view of Indigenous students, this was troubled by their open-ended answer responses which included many negative perceptions of Indigenous students’ behaviours, family backgrounds, and capacity for educational achievement. We argue that this indicates an underlying tension held by non-Indigenous teachers of Indigenous students, constructed through contradictory perceptions of self (open to and encouraging of Indigenous learners) and of Indigenous students (as less capable than non-Indigenous students, and uninterested in educational success). Using the Strategic Relational Approach’s notion of a context conduct dialectic, we offer an explanation of this tension by positioning teachers centrally within Taiwan’s cultural political economy, before considering implications for teacher education.

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Learning critical realist research by example: political decision-making in transport

Melia

2020

Journal of Critical Realism

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Critical Realism and the Strategic-Relational Approach

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Shifting sands: The reconfiguration of neoliberal youth penality

Shifting sands: The reconfiguration of neoliberal youth penality

Examining non-Indigenous teacher perceptions of Indigenous students in Taiwan through a Strategic Relational Approach

Learning critical realist research by example: political decision-making in transport

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