Resources

More resources directly related to radical relationism coming soon! Most of the resources below are general relationism resources.

Websites

Relationism in General

Journals and Series

Relationism in General

Publications

Radical Relationism

2021

  • Marchesi, A. (2021). A Radical Relationist Solution to the Problem of Intentional Inexistence. Synthese, 3–4, 7509–7534. https://philarchive.org/rec/MARARR-2

2013

  • Powell, C. (2013). Radical relationism: A proposal. In C. Powell & F. Dépelteau (Eds.), Conceptualizing relational sociology (pp. 187–208). Palgrave Macmillan.

Relationism in General

2023

  • Klasche, B. and Poopuu, B. (2023). What relations matter? International Studies Quarterly, 67(1), 1-9.
  • Mhlambi, S., & Tiribelli, S. (2023). Decolonizing AI Ethics: Relational Autonomy as a Means to Counter AI Harms. Topoi, 42, 867–880. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-022-09874-2
  • Morgner, C. (Ed.). (2023). John Dewey and the notion of “trans-action”: A sociological reply on rethinking relations and social processes. Palgrave Macmillan.

2022

  • Selg, P., Klasche, B., & Nõgisto, J. (2022). Wicked problems and sociology: Building a missing bridge through processual relationalism. International Review of Sociology, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2022.2035909

2021

  • Buys, R., & Marotta, V. (2021). Relational theories of encounters and the relational subject. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 42(1), 99–113. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2020.1864968
  • Nolet, A. M., Morselli, C., & Cousineau, M. M. (2021). The Social Network of Victims of Domestic Violence: A Network-Based Intervention Model to Improve Relational Autonomy. Violence Against Women, 27(10), 1630–1654. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801220947169
  • Selg, P. (2021). A sociological imagination for a clumsy world: François Dépelteau’s relational sociology. Digithum, 26, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i26.383829
  • Witte, D., & Schmitz, A. (2021). Relational sociology on a global scale: Field-theoretical perspectives on cross-cultural comparison and the re-figuration of space(s). Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 22(3). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-22.3.3772
  • Yu, L. (2021). Relational Autonomy: Where Confucius and Mencius Stand on Freedom. Asian Philosophy, 31(3), 320–335. https://doi.org/10.1080/09552367.2021.1902095

2020

  • Eacott, S. (2020). François Dépelteau and the generation of a relational intellectual community. Digithum,2020(26), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i26.374154
  • Fuhse, J. A. (2020). Relational sociology of the scientific field: Communication, identities, and field relations. Digithum, 26, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i26.374144
  • Sánchez-Flores, M. J. (2020). Human language as trans-actional autopoiesis. In C. Morgner (Ed.), John Dewey and the Notion of Trans-action: A John Dewey and the notion of “trans-action”: A sociological reply on rethinking relations and social processes (pp. 253–264). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26380-5_9
  • Selg, P. (2020). Causation is not everything: On constitution and trans-actional view of social science methodology (pp. 31-53). In C. Morgner (Ed.), John Dewey and the notion of ‘trans-action’: A sociological reply on rethinking relations and social processes. Palgrave. 
  • Selg, P. (2020), Reassembling the political: from mechanical to deep relational thinking about power. A. Kannike; V. Lang; K. Kuutma; K. Lindström; A. Riistan (ed). Approaches to Culture Theory VII. Tartu: Tartu University Press.
  • Selg, P. (Ed.) (2020). Special Issue: The work of Francois Dépelteau. Digithum, 26, 5-99. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and Universidad de Antioquia. https://raco.cat/index.php/Digithum/issue/view/29041
  • Selg, P., & Ventsel, A. (2020). Introducing relational political analysis: Political semiotics as a theory and method. Palgrave Macmillan. 

2019

  • Armstrong, A., Green, K., & Sangiacomo, A. (2019). Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: Being with Others. Edinburgh University Press. 
  • Hall, M. I. (2019). Relational Autonomy, Vulnerability Theory, Older Adults and the Law: Making it Real. Elder Law Review, 12(1), i–xxii. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/elr12&i=2

2018

  • Dépelteau, F. (2018). From the concept of ‘trans-action’ to a process-relational sociology. In F. Dépelteau (Ed.), The Palgrave handbook of relational sociology (pp. 499–519). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Donati, P. (2018). An original relational sociology grounded in critical realism. In F. Dépelteau (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology (pp. 431–456). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66005-9
  • Go, J. (2018). Relational sociology and postcolonial theory: Sketches of a “postcolonial relationism.” In F. Dépelteau (Ed.), The Palgrave handbook of relational sociology (pp. 357–373). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Guy, J. (2018). “Niklas Luhmann before relational sociology: The cybernetics roots of systems theory”. Systems Research & Behavioral Science, 35(6), 856–868. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2523
  • Selg, P. (2018). Power and relational sociology. In F. Dépelteau (ed.) The Palgrave handbook of relational sociology (pp. 539-557). Palgrave Macmillan.

2017

  • Gauthier-Chung, M. F. (2017). Relational Autonomy from a Political Perspective [University of London]. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.g1vu1dkyxrmg
  • Herring, J. (2014). Relational autonomy and family law. Springer.
  • Pratt, S. F. (2017), A Relational View of Ontological Security in International Relations. Forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly.

2016

  • Ashcroft, J.; R. Childs; A. Myers; M. Schluter, (2016), The Relational Lens: Measuring and Managing Stakeholder Relations. Forthcoming in Cambridge University Press. [link to Cambridge University Press]
  • Burkitt, I (2016), Relational agency: Relational sociology, agency and interaction. European Journal of Social Theory, 19 (3): 322-339.  [link to the University of Bradford Institutional Repository]
  • Donati, P. (2016). The ‘Relational Subject’ According to a Critical Realist Relational Sociology. Journal of Critical Realism, 15 (4): 352-375. [link to ResearchGate]
  • Liu, S. & Emirbayer, M. (2016). Field and Ecology. Sociological Theory 34 (1): 62-79. [link to Academia.edu]
  • Pratt, S. F. (2016). Pragmatism as Ontology, Not (Just) Epistemology: Exploring the Full Horizon of Pragmatism as an Approach to IR Theory. International Studies Review  http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isr/viv003 [link to Academia.edu]
  • Selg, P. (2016). ‘The fable of the Bs’: between substantialism and deep relational thinking about power. Journal of Political Power, 9 (2): 183-205. DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2016.1191163 [link to ResearchGate]
  • Selg, P. (2016) ‘Two Faces of the “Relational Turn”’, PS: Political Science & Politics, 49(1), pp. 27–31. doi: 10.1017/S1049096515001195 [link to ResearchGate]

2015

  • Crossley, N. (2015) Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion. The Punk and Post-Punk Worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975-80. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
  • Crossley, N. (2015). Relational sociology and culture: a preliminary framework. International Review of Sociology, 25(1), 65-85.
  • Dépelteau, F. (2015). Relational sociology, pragmatism, transactions and social fields. International Review of Sociology, 25(1), 45-64.
  • Donati, P. (2015). Manifesto for a critical realist relational sociology.International Review of Sociology, 25(1), 86-109.
  • Donati, P. and M. Archer (2015) The Relational Subject. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Fuhse, J. A. (2015). Theorizing social networks: the relational sociology of and around Harrison White. International Review of Sociology, 25(1), 15-44.
  • Prandini, R. (2015). Relational sociology: a well-defined sociological paradigm or a challenging ‘relational turn’in sociology?. International Review of Sociology, 25(1), 1-14.
  • Pyyhtinen, O. (2015) More-than-Human Sociology: A New Sociological Imagination Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Roseneil, S. and Ketokivi, K. (2015) “Relational Persons and Relational Processes: Developing the Notion of Relationality for the Sociology of Personal Life”, Sociology, pp. 1-17.
  • Selg, P (2015). Mis on relatsiooniline võimukäsitlus? [“What is relational approach to power?”] Acta Politica Estica 6, 67-92. [Link to article]
  • Tsekeris, Charalambos (2015) Revisiting the Self: Social Science Perspectives. London & New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138953352

2014

  • Archer, M. (2014) Late Modernity: Trajectories towards Morphogenetic Society. Springer.
  • Burkitt, I. (2014) Emotions and Social Relations. Sage Publications.
  • Crossley, N. and al (Ed. by) (2014) Social Networks and Music Worlds. London: Routledge.
  • Dépelteau, F. and Hervouet, R. (2014) The Metamorphoses of the Dacha: Some Processual Thinking, in Savoia Landini, T. and Dépelteau, F. (Ed. by) Norbert Elias & Empirical Research. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 179-196.
  • Donati, P. (2014) e-Study Guide for Relational Sociology: A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences. Cram 101.
  • Gabriel, N. (2014) Growing Up Beside You: A Relational Sociology of Early Childhood. History of the Human Sciences,27(3): 116-135.
  • Hernes, T. (2014) A Process Theory of Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Jancsics, David (2014) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Corruption. Sociology Compass,8(4): 358-372.
  • Mahhafy, S. (2014) Relational Presence. Scholar’s Press.
  • Marques, E., Bichir, R. M. and Moya (2014), M. Notas sobre el análisis de redes sociales en Brasil. Redes(Barcelona). , v.25: 85-93.
  • Miura, Kokichiro (2014) Walking on the Edge: Towards a Sociography of Discrimination against the Buraku: Lectures on Discrimination in Letter Format. International Journal of Japanese Sociology,23(1): 46-62.
  • Peters, Gabriel (2014) Explanation, understanding and determinism in Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology. History of the Human Sciences,27(1), February: 124-149.
  • Piiroinen, Tero (2014) For “Central Conflation”: A Critique of Archerian Dualism. Sociological Theory. 32(2): 79–99.
  • Veenstra, Gerry and Patrick John Burnett. (2014). A Relational Approach to Health Practices: Towards Transcending the Agency-Structure Divide. Sociology of Health & Illness,36(2): 187-198.

2013

  • Archer, M. (2013) Collective reflexivity: A Relational Case for It, in Powell, C. and Dépelteau, F. (Ed. by) Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and theoretical Issues. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 145-162.
  • Block, F. (2013) Relational Work and the Law: Recapturing the Legal Realist Critique of Market Fundamentalism. Journal of Law and Society, 40(1), Towards an Economic Sociology of Law: 27-48.
  • Cooney, M. and Phillips, S. (2013) With God on One’s Side: The Social Geometry of Death Row Apologies. Sociological Forum, 28(1): 159-178.
  • Crossley, N. (2013) Interactions, Justapositions, and Tastes: Conceptualizing Relations in Relational Sociology, in Powell, C. and Dépelteau, F. (Ed. by) Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and theoretical Issues. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 123-144.
  • Dépelteau, F. (2013) Comparing Elias and Bourdieu as Relational Thinkers, in Dépelteau, F. and Savoia Landini, T. (Ed. by) Norbert Elias & Social Theory. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 275-296.
  • Dépelteau, F. (2013) What is the Direction of the Relational Turn?, in Powell, C. and Dépelteau, F. (Ed. by) Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and theoretical Issues. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 163-186.
  • Dépelteau, F. and C. Powell (Ed. by) (2013) Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, & Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Donati, P. (2013) Relational Sociology and the Globalized Society, in Dépelteau, F. and C. Powell (Ed. by) (2013) Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, & Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 1-24.
  • Donati, P. (2013) Social Engagement: The viewpoint of relational sociology. International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 5(4): 84-99.
  • Dunning, E. and Hughes, J. (2013) Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process. Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Emirbayer, M. (2013) Relational Sociology as Fighting Words, in Powell, C. and Dépelteau, F. (Ed. by) Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and theoretical Issues. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 209-212.
  • Erikson, E. (2013) Formalist and Relationist Theory in Social Network Analysis. Sociological Theory 31(3): 219-242.
  • Fish, K. (2013) Relational Sociology and Historical Materialism: Three  Conversation Starters, in Powell, C. and Dépelteau, F. (Ed. by) Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and theoretical Issues. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 27-44.
  • Fontdevilla, J. and White, H. (2013) Relational Power from Switching across Netdoms through Reflexive and Indexical Language, in Dépelteau, F. and C. Powell (Ed. by) (2013) Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, & Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 155-180.
  • Friedman, M. (2013). Relational Autonomy and Individuality. University of Toronto Law Journal, 63(2), 327–341. https://doi.org/10.3138/utlj.63.2.070812RA
  • Fuhse, J. (2013) Social Relationships between Communication, Network, Structure, and Culture, in Dépelteau, F. and C. Powell (Ed. by) (2013) Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, & Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 181-206.
  • Gertz, A. (2013) Figurational Sociology and methododological Relationism. Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie65(2): 193-222.
  • Glasdam, S. and al. (2013) Client Involvement in Home Care Practice: a Relational Sociological Perspective. Nursing Inquiry, 20(4): 329-340.
  • Go, Julian (2013) For a Postcolonial Sociology. Theory and Society, 42(1): 25-55.
  • Goswami, M. (2013) Provincializing Sociology: The Case of a Premature Postcolonial Sociologist. Political Power and Social Theory(24): 145-175.
  • Hall, P. and Lamont, M. (2013) Why Social Relations Matter for Politics and Successful Societies. Annual Review of Political Science.(16): 49-71.
  • Jeongsik, J.L. (2013) Dancing with the Enemy? Relational Hazards and the Contingent Value of Repeat Exchanges in M&A Markets. Organization Science, 24(4): 1237-1256.
  • Kasper, D. (2013) Advancing Sociology through a Focus on Dynamic Relations, in Powell, C. and Dépelteau, F. (Ed. by) Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and theoretical Issues. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 67-86.
  • Kasperson, L.B. and Gabriel, N. (2013) Survival Units as the Point of Departure for a Relational Sociology, in Dépelteau, F. and C. Powell (Ed. by) (2013) Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, & Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 51-82.
  • Kivinen, O. and Piiroinen, T. (2013) Human Transaction Mechanisms in Evolutionary Niches – A methodological Relationist Standpoint, in Dépelteau, F. and C. Powell (Ed. by) (2013) Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, & Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 83-100.
  • Laux, Henning (2013) Richard Rorty and the Resuscitation of Pragmatism in the ‘Age of the Composition. Berliner Journal fur Soziologie,23(3-4): 389-415.
  • Malinick, T.E., Tindall, D.B., and Diani, M. (2013) Network Centrality and Social Movement Media Coverage: A Two-Mode Network Analytic Approach. Social Networks35(2): 148-158.
  • McFarlane, C. (2013) Relational Sociology, Theoretical Inhumanism, and the Problem of the Nonhuman, in Powell, C. and Dépelteau, F. (Ed. by) Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and theoretical Issues. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 45-66.
  • McNamee, S. and Hosking, D.M. (2013) Research and Social Change: A Relational Constructionist Approach. Routledge.
  • Mohr, J. (2013) Bourdieu’s Relational Method in Theory and in Practice: from Fields and Capitals to Networks and Institutions (and Back Again), in Dépelteau, F. and C. Powell (Ed. by) (2013) Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, & Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 101-136.
  • Monterescu, D. (2013) Spatial Relationality and the Fallacies of Methodological Nationalism: Theorizing Urban Space and Binational Sociality in Jewish-Arab Mixed Towns, in Dépelteau, F. and C. Powell (Ed. by) (2013) Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, & Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 25-50.
  • Pierides, D. and Woodman, D. (2013) Object-oriented sociology and organizing in the face of emergency: Bruno Latour, Graham Harman and the material turn. The British Journal of Sociology, 63(4): 662-679.
  • Powell, C. and Dépelteau, F. (Ed. by) (2013) Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Price, H. (2013) Connecting Network Methods to Social Science research: how to Parsimoniously Use Dyadic Measures as Independent Variables, in Dépelteau, F. and C. Powell (Ed. by) (2013) Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, & Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 207-226.
  • Redshaw, S. (2013) Feminist Preludes to Relational Sociology, in Powell, C. and Dépelteau, F. (Ed. by) Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and theoretical Issues. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 13-26.
  • Reed, I.A. (2013) Power: Relational, Discursive, and Performative Dimensions. Sociological Theory31(3): 193-218.
  • Silva, Filipe Carreira da (2013) Outline of a Social Theory of Rights: A Neo-Pragmatist Approach. European Journal of Social Theory16(4): 457-475.
  • Thorpe, C. (2013) Critical Strategies for Implementing a Relational Sociology Paradigm: Elias, Bourdieu, and Uncivilized Sociological Theoretical Struggles, in Powell, C. and Dépelteau, F. (Ed. by) Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and theoretical Issues. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 105-122.
  • Tsekeris, C. (2013) Norbert Elias on Relations: Insights and Perspectives, in Powell, C. and Dépelteau, F. (Ed. by) Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and theoretical Issues. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 87-104.
  • Wacquant, L. (2013) Symbolic Power and Group-Making: On Pierre Bourdieu’s reframing of Class. Journalof Classical Sociology13(2): 274-291.
  • White, H., Godart, F. and Thiemann, M. (2013) Turning Points and the Space of Possibles: A Relational Perspective on the Different Forms of Uncertainty, in Dépelteau, F. and C. Powell (Ed. by) (2013) Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, & Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 137-154.

2012

  • Atkinson, W. (2012) Where Now for Bourdieu-Inspired Sociology? Sociology, 46(1): 167-173.
  • Bandlj, N. (2012) Relational Work and Economic Sociology. Politics and Society, 40(2): 175-201.
  • Cousin, B. and Chauvin, S. (2012) The Symbolic Economy of Social Capital. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 193: 96-103.
  • D’Alessandro, S. (2012) Sociology and the Twenty-First Century: Breaking the Deadlock and Going Beyond the Postmodern Meta-Reflection Through the Relational Paradigm. World Futures, 68(4-5): 258-272.
  • Di Nicola, P. (2012) The Theoretical Approaches of the Study of Personal Networks. Sociologia e Politiche Sociali, 15(2): 9-26.
  • Elder-Vass, D. (2012) The Reality of Social Construction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Fuhse, J. (2012) Embedding the Stranger: Ethnic Categories and Cultural Differences in Social Networks. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 33(6): 639-655.
  • Jaspal, R. and Cinnirella, M. (2012) The Construction of Ethnic Identity: insights from Identity Process Theory. Ethnicities, 12(5): 503-530.
  • Lee, M. and Silver, D. (2012) Simmel’s law of the Individual and the Ethics of the relational Self. Theory,Culture & Society, 29(7-8): 124-145.
  • Li, L., Chen, J. and Qin, G. (2012) Class Analysis in Contemporary Sociology: Theoretical Perspectives and Analytical Paradigms. Shehui/Society: Chinese Journal of Sociology, 32(5): 25-46.
  • Liam, C.-M. (2012) The Disablement and Enablement of Childhood. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 22(2): 147-167.
  • Marques, E. (2012) Social Networks, Segregation and Poverty in Sao Paulo. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 36(5): 958-979.
  • McCurdy, P. (2012) Social Movements, Protest and Mainstream Media. Sociology Compass, 6(3): 244-255.
  • Mucha, J. (2012) Toward an Interactionist Sociology of Ethnic Relations. Polish Sociological Review, 1: 19-37.
  • Schutzeichel, R. (2012) Ties, Stories and Events: Arguments for a Process-related Network Theory. Berliner Journal fur Soziologie, 23(3): 341-357.
  • Silver, D. and Lee, M. (2012) Self-Relations in Social Relations. Sociological Theory, 30(4): 207-237.
  • Spencer D., Walby, K. and Hunt, A. (Eds.) (2012) Emotions Matter: A Relational Approach to Emotions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Tindall, D.B., Cormier, J. and Diani, M. (2013) Network Social Capital as an Outcome of Social Movement Mobilization: Using the Position Generator as an Indicator of Social Network Diversity. Social Networks, 34(4): 387-395.
  • Tsekeris, C. (2012) Advances in Reflexive Sociology: Theory, Agency and Dialogical Inquiry. Italian Sociological Review, 2(2): 66-75.
  • Van Eijk, G. (2012) Class Differences in Dutch Society: Perceptions, Denial and Morality. Sociologie, 7(3): 248-269.
  • Whitford, J. (2012) Waltzing, relational Work, and the Construction (or Not) of Collaboration in Manufacturing Industries. Politics and Society, 40(2): 249-272.
  • Zelizer, V.A. (2012) How I Became a Relational Economic Sociologist and What Does That Mean? Politics & Society, 40(2): 145-174.

2010

  • Crossley, N. (2010). Towards relational sociology. Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Donati, P. (2010). Relational sociology: A new paradigm for the social sciences. Taylor & Francis Group. 

2003

  • Christman, J. (2003). Relational Autonomy, Liberal Individualism, and the Social Constitution of Selves. Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, 117(1/2), 143–164. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1023/B:PHIL.0000014532.56866.5c

2000

  • Mackenzie, C., & Stoljar, N. (Eds.). (2000). Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self. Oxford University Press. 

1997

  • Emirbayer, M. (1997). “Manifesto for a Relational Sociology.” The American Journal of Sociology 103 (2): 281-317.

1978

  • Elias, N. (1978). What is Sociology? Columbia University Press.

1976

  • Ollman, B. 1976. Alienation: Marx’s conception of man in capitalist society. Second ed. Cambridge University Press.