A critical 'post' to critical realism
首次在经济学领域尝试让批判实在论与后结构主义、女性主义等“后”学视角对话，指出这种跨方法论交流能提出新问题，并勾勒了一种非普遍主义、策略本质主义的知识观——情境社会政治经济学实践。
The aim of this paper is to initiate a dialogue between critical realism (CR) and what is termed a ‘post'ist perspective’. This amalgamated perspective is composed of relatively recent transdisciplinary theoretical approaches such as poststructuralism, deconstruction, feminism and postcolonial theory. Such a conversation between CR and post'isms within economics has not been attempted before. I shall argue that this uncommon methodological exchange is worth pursuing, since it allows us to raise important new questions. After the initial stage‐setting, the dialogue proceeds in two parts. In the first part, aspects of CR are evaluated using post'ist insights. In the second part, certain underconsidered theoretical domains in CR are highlighted. I conclude by sketching the outline of a possible non‐universalist and strategically essentialist way of considering knowledge—as a Contextual Social Political Economy praxis.