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International School of Radical Relationism

Resources

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


Websites

Relationism in General

  • Centre de recherche sur less liens sociaux (CERLIS)
  • Norbert Elias Foundation
  • Relational Center
  • Relational Research
  • Relational Sociology – Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) Research Cluster
  • Relational Sociology Wikipedia
  • Relational Studies Hub (RS Hub)
  • Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI)

Journals and Series

Relationism in General

  • Digithum (N. Cantó-Milà (editor in chief), F. Dépelteau (in memoriam, former editor)
  • Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology (N. Crossley & P. Seelg (book series editors), F. Dépelteau (in memoriam, founder))

Publications

Philosophical & Pragmatist Foundations (29)
YearFirst authorReferenceType
2020Merleau-PontyMerleau-Ponty, M. (2020). The sensible world and the world of expression: Course notes from the Collège de France, 1953 (B. Smyth, Trans.). Northwestern University Press.Book
2017Rizo-PatronRizo-Patron, E., Casey, E. S., & Wirth, J. M. (Eds.). (2017). Adventures in phenomenology: Gaston Bachelard. State University of New York Press.Edited volume
2014BentleyBentley, A. F. (2014). The process of government: A study of social pressures (P. H. Odegard, Ed.) (Original work published 1908)Book
2013LauxLaux, Henning (2013) Richard Rorty and the Resuscitation of Pragmatism in the ‘Age of the Composition. Berliner Journal fur Soziologie,23(3-4): 389-415.Journal article
2013SilvaSilva, Filipe Carreira da (2013) Outline of a Social Theory of Rights: A Neo-Pragmatist Approach. European Journal of Social Theory16(4): 457-475.Journal article
2012Elder-VassElder-Vass, D. (2012) The Reality of Social Construction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Book
2012Merleau-PontyMerleau-Ponty, M. (2012). Phenomenology of perception (D. A. Landes, Trans.). Routledge.Book
2002ElshtainElshtain, J. B. (Ed.). (2002). The Jane Addams reader. Basic Books.Edited volume
2001MageeMagee, G. A. (2001). Hegel and the hermetic tradition. Cornell University Press.Book
1984HabermasHabermas, J. (1984). The theory of communicative action: Vol. 1. Reason and the rationalization of society (T. McCarthy, Trans.). Beacon Press.Book
1980KauffmanKauffman, L., & Varela, F. (1980). Form dynamics. Journal of Social and Biological Structures, 3(2), 171–206.Journal article
1976OllmanOllman, B. 1976. Alienation: Marx’s conception of man in capitalist society. Second ed. Cambridge University Press.Book
1975BentleyBentley, A. F. (1975). Inquiry into inquiries: Essays in social theory (S. Ratner, Ed.). Greenwood Press. (Original work published 1954)Book
1975DeweyDewey, J., & Bentley, A. F. (1975). Knowing and the known. Greenwood Press. (Original work published 1949)Book
1971BachelardBachelard, G. (1971). On poetic imagination and reverie (C. Gaudin, Trans.). Bobbs-Merrill.Book
1968BentleyBentley, A. F. (1968). Relativity in man and society (S. Ratner, Intro.). (Original work published 1926)Book
1967BentleyBentley, A. F. (1967). The process of government: A study of social pressures (P. H. Odegard, Ed.). Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (Original work published 1908)Book
1964BachelardBachelard, G. (1964a). L'eau et les rêves: Essai sur l'imagination de la matière. José Corti. (Original work published 1942)Book
1964BachelardBachelard, G. (1964b). La poétique de l'espace. Presses Universitaires de France. (Original work published 1957)Book
1963JamesJames, W. (1963). Pragmatism, and four essays from The meaning of truth.Book
1960DeweyDewey, J., & Bentley, A. F. (1960). Knowing and the known. Beacon Press.Book
1958JamesJames, W. (1958). Essays in radical empiricism [and] A pluralistic universe.Book
1954DeweyDewey, J. (1954). The public and its problems. Swallow Press. (Original work published 1927)Book
1950JamesJames, W. (1950). The principles of psychology. Dover. (Original work published 1890)Book
1948BachelardBachelard, G. (1948). La terre et les rêveries de la volonté. José Corti.Book
1944CassirerCassirer, E. (1944). The concept of group and the theory of perception. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 5(1), 1–36.Journal article
1940MillsMills, C. W. (1940). Situated actions and vocabularies of motive. American Sociological Review, 5(6), 904–913.Journal article
1939DeweyDewey, J. (1939). Theory of valuation. University of Chicago Press.Book
1938BachelardBachelard, G. (1938). La formation de l'esprit scientifique. Vrin.Book
Relational Sociology (80)
YearFirst authorReferenceType
2022SelgSelg, 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/10.1080/03906701.2022.2035909Journal article
2021BuysBuys, R., & Marotta, V. (2021). Relational theories of encounters and the relational subject. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 42(1), 99–113. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2020.1864968Journal article
2021SelgSelg, P. (2021). A sociological imagination for a clumsy world: François Dépelteau’s relational sociology. Digithum, 26, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i26.383829Journal article
2021WitteWitte, 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-22.3.3772Journal article
2020MorgnerMorgner, C. (Ed.). (2020). John Dewey and the notion of “trans-action”: A sociological reply on rethinking relations and social processes. Palgrave Macmillan.Edited volume
2020EacottEacott, S. (2020). François Dépelteau and the generation of a relational intellectual community. Digithum,2020(26), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i26.374154Journal article
2020FuhseFuhse, J. A. (2020). Relational sociology of the scientific field: Communication, identities, and field relations. Digithum, 26, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i26.374144Journal article
2020SelgSelg, 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/29041Journal special issue
2020Sánchez-FloresSánchez-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_9Book chapter
2018DonatiDonati, 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/10.1007/978-3-319-66005-9Book chapter
2018DépelteauDépelteau, 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.Book chapter
2018GuyGuy, 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.2523Journal article
2018SelgSelg, P. (2018). Power and relational sociology. In F. Dépelteau (ed.) The Palgrave handbook of relational sociology (pp. 539-557). Palgrave Macmillan.Book
2017BlumerBlumer, H. (2017). Industrialization as an agent of social change: A critical analysis (D. R. Maines & T. J. Morrione, Eds.). Routledge. (Original work published 1990)Book
2017WacquantWacquant, L., & Akçaoğlu, A. (2017). Practice and symbolic power in Bourdieu: The view from Berkeley. Journal of Classical Sociology, 17(1), 55–69.Journal article
2016BurkittBurkitt, I. (2016), Relational agency: Relational sociology, agency and interaction. European Journal of Social Theory, 19 (3): 322-339. [link]Journal article
2016DonatiDonati, P. (2016). The ‘Relational Subject’ According to a Critical Realist Relational Sociology. Journal of Critical Realism, 15 (4): 352-375. [link]Journal article
2016LiuLiu, S. & Emirbayer, M. (2016). Field and Ecology. Sociological Theory 34 (1): 62-79. [link]Journal article
2016TillyTilly, C. (2016a). Explaining social processes. Routledge.Book
2016TillyTilly, C. (2016b). Identities, boundaries, and social ties. Routledge.Book
2015CrossleyCrossley, N. (2015). Relational sociology and culture: a preliminary framework. International Review of Sociology, 25(1), 65-85.Journal article
2015DonatiDonati, P. (2015). Manifesto for a critical realist relational sociology.International Review of Sociology, 25(1), 86-109.Journal article
2015DonatiDonati, P. and M. Archer (2015) The Relational Subject. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.Book
2015DépelteauDépelteau, F. (2015). Relational sociology, pragmatism, transactions and social fields. International Review of Sociology, 25(1), 45-64.Journal article
2015FuhseFuhse, J. A. (2015). Theorizing social networks: the relational sociology of and around Harrison White. International Review of Sociology, 25(1), 15-44.Journal article
2015PrandiniPrandini, R. (2015). Relational sociology: a well-defined sociological paradigm or a challenging ‘relational turn’in sociology?. International Review of Sociology, 25(1), 1-14.Journal article
2015RoseneilRoseneil, 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.Journal article
2014ArcherArcher, M. (2014) Late Modernity: Trajectories towards Morphogenetic Society. Springer.Book
2014DonatiDonati, P. (2014) e-Study Guide for Relational Sociology: A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences. Cram 101.Book
2014PetersPeters, Gabriel (2014) Explanation, understanding and determinism in Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology. History of the Human Sciences,27(1), February: 124-149.Journal article
2014PiiroinenPiiroinen, Tero (2014) For “Central Conflation”: A Critique of Archerian Dualism. Sociological Theory. 32(2): 79–99.Journal article
2013ArcherArcher, 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.Book chapter
2013CrossleyCrossley, 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.Book chapter
2013DonatiDonati, 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.Book chapter
2013DonatiDonati, P. (2013) Social Engagement: The viewpoint of relational sociology. International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 5(4): 84-99.Journal article
2013DunningDunning, E. and Hughes, J. (2013) Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process. Bloomsbury Academic.Book
2013DépelteauDépelteau, 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.Book chapter
2013DépelteauDépelteau, 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.Book chapter
2013DépelteauDépelteau, F. and C. Powell (Ed. by) (2013) Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, & Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.Edited volume
2013EmirbayerEmirbayer, 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.Book chapter
2013FishFish, 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.Book chapter
2013FontdevillaFontdevilla, 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.Book chapter
2013FuhseFuhse, 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.Book chapter
2013GertzGertz, A. (2013) Figurational Sociology and methododological Relationism. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie65(2): 193-222.Journal article
2013KasperKasper, 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.Book chapter
2013KaspersonKasperson, 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.Book chapter
2013KivinenKivinen, 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.Book chapter
2013MohrMohr, 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.Book chapter
2013PowellPowell, C. and Dépelteau, F. (Ed. by) (2013) Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.Edited volume
2013RedshawRedshaw, 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.Book chapter
2013ReedReed, I.A. (2013) Power: Relational, Discursive, and Performative Dimensions. Sociological Theory31(3): 193-218.Journal article
2013ThorpeThorpe, 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.Book chapter
2013TsekerisTsekeris, 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.Book chapter
2013WacquantWacquant, L. (2013) Symbolic Power and Group-Making: On Pierre Bourdieu’s reframing of Class. Journal of Classical Sociology13(2): 274-291.Journal article
2013WhiteWhite, 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.Book chapter
2012AtkinsonAtkinson, W. (2012) Where Now for Bourdieu-Inspired Sociology? Sociology, 46(1): 167-173.Journal article
2012CousinCousin, B. and Chauvin, S. (2012) The Symbolic Economy of Social Capital. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 193: 96-103.Journal article
2012D’AlessandroD’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.Journal article
2012SchutzeichelSchutzeichel, R. (2012) Ties, Stories and Events: Arguments for a Process-related Network Theory. Berliner Journal fur Soziologie, 23(3): 341-357.Journal article
2012TsekerisTsekeris, C. (2012) Advances in Reflexive Sociology: Theory, Agency and Dialogical Inquiry. Italian Sociological Review, 2(2): 66-75.Journal article
2012WacquantWacquant, L. (2012). Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing neoliberalism. Social Anthropology, 20(1), 66–79.Journal article
2010CrossleyCrossley, N. (2010). Towards relational sociology. Taylor & Francis Group.Book
2010DonatiDonati, P. (2010). Relational sociology: A new paradigm for the social sciences. Taylor & Francis Group.Book
2005BourdieuBourdieu, P. (2005). The social structures of the economy (C. Turner, Trans.). Polity.Book
2005LatourLatour, B. (2005). Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network-theory. Oxford University Press.Book
1998EmirbayerEmirbayer, M., & Mische, A. (1998). What is agency? American Journal of Sociology, 103(4), 962–1023.Journal article
1997EmirbayerEmirbayer, M. (1997). Manifesto for a relational sociology. American Journal of Sociology, 103(2), 281–317.Journal article
1995AbbottAbbott, A. (1995). Things of boundaries. Social Research, 62(4), 857–882.Journal article
1993WacquantWacquant, L. (1993). From ruling class to field of power: An interview with Pierre Bourdieu on La noblesse d'État. Theory, Culture & Society, 10(3), 19–44.Journal article
1991BourdieuBourdieu, P. (1991). Language and symbolic power (J. B. Thompson, Ed.; G. Raymond & M. Adamson, Trans.). Harvard University Press.Book
1990BourdieuBourdieu, P. (1990). The logic of practice (R. Nice, Trans.). Stanford University Press.Book
1990SmithSmith, D. E. (1990). The conceptual practices of power: A feminist sociology of knowledge. University of Toronto Press.Book
1989EliasElias, N. (1989). The symbol theory: An introduction, part one. Theory, Culture & Society, 6(2), 169–217.Journal article
1988AbbottAbbott, A. (1988a). The system of professions: An essay on the division of expert labor. University of Chicago Press.Book
1987SmithSmith, D. E. (1987). The everyday world as problematic: A feminist sociology. Northeastern University Press.Book
1979BourdieuBourdieu, P. (1979). La distinction: Critique sociale du jugement. Éditions de Minuit.Book
1978EliasElias, N. (1978). What is Sociology? Columbia University Press.Book
1977BourdieuBourdieu, P. (1977). Outline of a theory of practice (R. Nice, Trans.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1972)Book
1969BlumerBlumer, H. (1969). Symbolic interactionism: Perspective and method. Prentice-Hall.Book
1956BlumerBlumer, H. (1956). Sociological analysis and the "variable." American Sociological Review, 21(6), 683–690.Journal article
Relational Autonomy (10)
YearFirst authorReferenceType
2023MhlambiMhlambi, 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/s11245-022-09874-2Journal article
2021NoletNolet, 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/10.1177/1077801220947169Journal article
2021YuYu, L. (2021). Relational Autonomy: Where Confucius and Mencius Stand on Freedom. Asian Philosophy, 31(3), 320–335. https://doi.org/10.1080/09552367.2021.1902095Journal article
2019ArmstrongArmstrong, A., Green, K., & Sangiacomo, A. (2019). Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: Being with Others. Edinburgh University Press.Book
2019HallHall, 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=2Journal article
2017Gauthier-ChungGauthier-Chung, M. F. (2017). Relational Autonomy from a Political Perspective [University of London]. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.g1vu1dkyxrmgThesis
2014HerringHerring, J. (2014). Relational autonomy and family law. Springer.Book
2013FriedmanFriedman, M. (2013). Relational Autonomy and Individuality. University of Toronto Law Journal, 63(2), 327–341. https://doi.org/10.3138/utlj.63.2.070812RAJournal article
2003ChristmanChristman, 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/10.1023/B:PHIL.0000014532.56866.5cJournal article
2000MackenzieMackenzie, C., & Stoljar, N. (Eds.). (2000). Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self. Oxford University Press.Edited volume
Relationism in IR & Politics (22)
YearFirst authorReferenceType
2026NelemsNelems, R. , & Sánchez-Flores, MJ (2026). The case for a radically relational (non-anthropocentric) democracy.Democratic Theory, 13(1), 23-41.Journal article
2024Sánchez-FloresSánchez-Flores, MJ , & Girard, SA (2024). Global solidarity as a non-anthropocentric, radical relational self-interest: The COVAX facilityand governance of wicked problems in late global capitalism. Digithum , (33), 1-13.Journal article
2023KlascheKlasche, B. and Poopuu, B. (2023). What relations matter? International Studies Quarterly, 67(1), 1-9.Journal article
2021TicknerTickner, A. B., & Querejazu, A. (2021). Weaving worlds: Cosmopraxis as relational sensibility. International Studies Quarterly, 65(2), 391–408.Journal article
2021TrownsellTrownsell, T. A., et al. (2021). Differing about difference: Relational IR from around the world. International Studies Perspectives, 22(1), 25–64.Journal article
2020KurkiKurki, M. (2020). International relations in a relational universe. Oxford University Press.Book
2020SelgSelg, 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.Book chapter
2020SelgSelg, P., & Ventsel, A. (2020). Introducing relational political analysis: Political semiotics as a theory and method. Palgrave Macmillan.Book
2018PersaudPersaud, R. B., & Sajed, A. (Eds.). (2018). Race, gender, and culture in international relations: Postcolonial perspectives. Routledge.Edited volume
2017BarkawiBarkawi, T., & Lawson, G. (Eds.). (2017). International origins of social and political theory. Emerald.Edited volume
2017HobsonHobson, J. M., & Sajed, A. (2017). Navigating beyond the Eurofetishist frontier of critical IR theory: Exploring the complex landscapes of non-Western agency. International Studies Review, 19(4), 547–572.Journal article
2017PrattPratt, S. F. (2017), A Relational View of Ontological Security in International Relations. Forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly.Journal article
2016PrattPratt, 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]Journal article
2016QuerejazuQuerejazu, A. (2016). Encountering the pluriverse: Looking for alternatives in other worlds. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 59(2), Article e007.Journal article
2016SelgSelg, 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]Journal article
2016SelgSelg, P. (2016) ‘Two Faces of the “Relational Turn”’, PS: Political Science & Politics, 49(1), pp. 27–31. doi: 10.1017/S1049096515001195 [link]Journal article
2015SelgSelg, P. (2015). Mis on relatsiooniline võimukäsitlus? [“What is relational approach to power?”] Acta Politica Estica 6, 67-92. ] [link]Journal article
2013ColemanColeman, L. M., & Sajed, A. (2013). Fifty key thinkers on globalization. Routledge.Book
2013HallHall, P. and Lamont, M. (2013) Why Social Relations Matter for Politics and Successful Societies. Annual Review of Political Science.(16): 49-71.Journal article
2013KurkiKurki, M. (2013). Democratic futures: Revisioning democracy promotion. Routledge.Book
2013SajedSajed, A. (2013). Postcolonial encounters in international relations: The politics of transgression in the Maghreb. Routledge.Book
2008KurkiKurki, M. (2008). Causation in international relations: Reclaiming causal analysis. Cambridge University Press.Book
1999JacksonJackson, P. T., & Nexon, D. H. (1999). Relations before states: Substance, process and the study of world politics. European Journal of International Relations, 5(3), 291–332.Journal article
1980RobinsonRobinson, C. J. (1980). The terms of order: Political science and the myth of leadership. State University of New York Press.Book
Decolonial, Indigenous & Anti-racist Thought (23)
YearFirst authorReferenceType
2026Sánchez-FloresSánchez-Flores, M. J. (2026). Decolonizing bodies: A radical relational approach to racial healing and worlding shared humanity. Palgrave Macmillan.Book
2020YunkaportaYunkaporta, T. (2020). Sand talk: How Indigenous thinking can save the world. HarperOne.Book
2018GoGo, 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.Book chapter
2017brownbrown, a. m. (2017). Emergent strategy: Shaping change, changing worlds. AK Press.Book
2017la papersonla paperson. (2017). A third university is possible. University of Minnesota Press.Book
2017SimpsonSimpson, L. B. (2017). As we have always done: Indigenous freedom through radical resistance. University of Minnesota Press.Book
2016CoulthardCoulthard, G., & Simpson, L. B. (2016). Grounded normativity / place-based solidarity. American Quarterly, 68(2), 249–255.Journal article
2016ToddTodd, Z. (2016). An Indigenous feminist's take on the ontological turn: "Ontology" is just another word for colonialism. Journal of Historical Sociology, 29(1), 4–22.Journal article
2013GoGo, Julian (2013) For a Postcolonial Sociology. Theory and Society, 42(1): 25-55.Journal article
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2014MahhafyMahhafy, S. (2014) Relational Presence. Scholar’s Press.Book
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2012SpencerSpencer D., Walby, K. and Hunt, A. (Eds.) (2012) Emotions Matter: A Relational Approach to Emotions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.Edited volume
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2016AshcroftAshcroft, J.; R. Childs; A. Myers; M. Schluter (2016), The Relational Lens: Measuring and Managing Stakeholder Relations. Forthcoming in Cambridge University Press. [link]Book
2015CrossleyCrossley, 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.Book
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2014GabrielGabriel, N. (2014) Growing Up Beside You: A Relational Sociology of Early Childhood. History of the Human Sciences,27(3): 116-135.Journal article
2014HernesHernes, T. (2014) A Process Theory of Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Book
2014JancsicsJancsics, David (2014) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Corruption. Sociology Compass,8(4): 358-372.Journal article
2014VeenstraVeenstra, 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.Journal article
2013BlockBlock, 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.Journal article
2013CooneyCooney, M. and Phillips, S. (2013) With God on One’s Side: The Social Geometry of Death Row Apologies. Sociological Forum, 28(1): 159-178.Journal article
2013GlasdamGlasdam, S. and al. (2013) Client Involvement in Home Care Practice: a Relational Sociological Perspective. Nursing Inquiry, 20(4): 329-340.Journal article
2013JeongsikJeongsik, 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.Journal article
2013MalinickMalinick, 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.Journal article
2013MonterescuMonterescu, 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.Book chapter
2013TindallTindall, 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.Journal article
2012BandljBandlj, N. (2012) Relational Work and Economic Sociology. Politics and Society, 40(2): 175-201.Journal article
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