The winner of the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize for 2013 is
Lena Gunnarsson for her book The Contradictions of Love: Towards a
Feminist-Realist Ontology of Sociosexuality (Routledge). The
Contradictions of Love makes creative and original use of all phases of
critical realism (basic or original critical realism, dialectical critical
realism and the philosophy of metaReality, or metaRealism) in exploring this
important topic.
There was a very strong field. The judges were impressed in different
ways by all short-listed works (see the list below), but felt that the
following (in alphabetical order) deserve special mention as runners-up:
Priscilla Alderson, Childhoods Real and Imagined: Volume
1: An Introduction to Critical Realism and Childhood Studies (Routledge)
Dustin McWherter, The Problem of Critical Ontology:
Bhaskar Contra Kant (Palgrave Macmillan)
Shortlist
Abdullahi
Haji-Abdi, Critical Realism, Somalia and the Diaspora Community (Routledge)
Priscilla Alderson, Childhoods Real and Imagined: Volume
1: An Introduction to Critical realism and Childhood Studies (Routledge)
Lena Gunnarsson, The Contradictions of Love: Towards a
Feminist-Realist Ontology of Sociosexuality (Routledge)
Karl Maton, Knowledge and Knowers: Towards a Realist
Sociology of Education (Routledge)
Dustin McWherter, The Problem of Critical Ontology:
Bhaskar Contra Kant (Palgrave Macmillan)
Iskra Nunez, Critical Realist Activity Theory: An Engagement
with Critical Realism and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (Routledge)
Frédéric Vandenberghe, What's Critical About Critical
Realism? Essays in Reconstructive Social Theory (Routledge)
Nick Wilson, The Art of Re-enchantment: Making Early
Music in the Modern Age (OUP USA)
Andrew Wright, Christianity and Critical Realism:
Ambiguity, Truth and Theological Literacy (Routledge)
