Abstract The literature on irregular migration often deals with policies and the role of states. A smaller body focuses that migrants themselves have, or can have. This chapter will explore agency have to influence their own trajectory. Moreover, it discuss how use become incorporated into societies in which they reside despite status. By using a broad notion citizenship, we consider obtain for...

This paper is a response to Ray Pawson’s critique of critical realism, the philosophy of science elaborated by Roy Bhaskar. I argue that Pawson misinterprets critical realism’s positions on both natural and social science. His charges concerning its totalising ontology, its arrogant epistemology, and its naive methodology are largely unfounded, such that the differences between critical realism...

Both Alasdair MacIntyre and Jeffrey Stout are concerned social critics who lament many of the features of contemporary life and political and ethical discourse. They both see the global market and government bureaucracies as institutional arrangements that often rob their citizens of the capacity to hold reasoned debates about important matters and lead virtuous, meaningful lives. And both want...

This commentary responds to Bram Büscher's critique of the more-than-human turn. As a geographer, I find myself in agreement with broad tenor concerns about ontological idealism and relationality expressed Bram's paper, welcome its recognition emancipatory aims scholarship. However, show that literatures are far more diverse than characterisation field suggests. Many works eschew relational age...

How is the agency of women best conceptualised in highly coercive settings? We explore this in the context of international efforts to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in heterosexual relationships. Articles critique the tendency to think of women's agency and programme endpoints in terms of individual actions, such as reporting violent men or leaving violent relationships, ...

In this article we critique resilience’s oft-celebrated overcoming of modern liberal frameworks. We bring work on resilience in geography and cognate fields into conversation with explorations the ‘asymmetrical Anthropocene’, an emerging body thought which emphasizes human-nonhuman relational asymmetry. Despite their resonances, there has been little engagement between these two responses to hu...