Left realism emerged in criminology from critical criminology as a reaction against what was perceived to be the left's failure to take a practical interest...

Magic realism or magical realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements...

Realism, a school of thought in international relations theory, is a theoretical framework that views world politics as an enduring competition among...

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? is a 2009 book by British philosopher Mark Fisher. It explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism", which...

Philosophical realism – usually not treated as a position of its own but as a stance towards other subject matters – is the view that a certain kind of...

Socialist realism was the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union that mandated an idealized representation of life under socialism in literature...

ill health. In Crime in Context, he sets out his relationship to the left realism project, saying that his involvement was 'more tangential' than with...

Neo-Positivism, or Neo-Conservatism, is the ideological polar opposite of left realism. It considers the phenomenon of crime from the perspective of political...

Moral realism (also ethical realism) is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is...

Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real...