Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I Introducing Critical Realism -- Introduction -- 1 Key Features of Critical Realism in Practice: A Brief Outline -- Part II Postmodern-Realist Encounters -- Introduction -- 2 Realism for Sceptics -- 3 Postmodernism and theThree 'Pomo Flips' -- 4 Essentialism, Social Constructionism and Beyond -- Part III Social Science and Space -- Introduction -- 5 Space and Social Theory -- 6 Geohistorical Explanation and Problems of Narrative -- Part IV Critical Realism: From Critique to Normative Theory -- Introduction -- 7 Critical Realism and the Limits to Critical Social Science -- 8 Ethics Unbound: For a Normative Turn in Social Theory -- References -- Index.