Thinking of Space Relationally
Critical Realism Beyond Relativism – A Manifold Study of the Artworld in Beijing
Since the relational turn, scholars have combated methodological universalism, nationalism, and individualism in researching social-spatial transformations. Yet, when leaving the gaps between the traveling and local epistemic assumptions unattended, engaging relational spatial theories in empirical research may still reproduce established theoretical claims.
Following the sociology of knowledge tradition and taking Critical Realism as a meta-theoretical framework, Xiaoxue Gao takes relational spatial theories as traveling conceptual knowledge and develops meaningful and context-sensitive ways of engaging them in studying the complex urban phenomenon in China. She offers conceptual elucidations and methodological roadmaps, which leap productively from employing plural causal hypotheses to generating effect-based explanations for locally observable events. They are exemplified by manifold interrogations of Beijing's Artworld as a conjuncture of particular events.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Figures and Tables
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Acknowledgment
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1 Introduction
Seiten 13 - 44 -
Section One: Thinking of space relationally: traveling epistemic frames and local context of knowing and doing
2 Conceptual elucidations
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3 Accounts of social space in traditional Chinese thought
Seiten 83 - 124 -
4 Recontextualizing theoretical knowledge of space and the local context of knowing
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Section Two: The retroductive empirical research on the spatial constitution of Beijing's artworld
5 Critical realism methodology and the study of an artworld
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6 Conclusion
Seiten 251 - 258 -
References
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Appendix: anonymized interview list
Seiten 278 - 282
9. April 2021, 282 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5587-2
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