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.
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2020
Technische Universität Berlin
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16
9 s/w Abbildungen, 16 farbige Abbildungen
12 SW-Abbildungen, 28 Farbabbildungen
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978-3-8394-5587-6 (9783839455876)
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Xiaoxue Gao (Dr. phil.), born in 1987, is post-doc at the Institute of Architecture at Technical University of Berlin. She did her doctorate at TU Berlin, at the chair of planning and architecture sociology. Prior to that, Xiaoxue gained her bachelor's in urban planning from Tianjin University and master's in human geography from Peking University. She engages in practice of urban planning and art criticism. Her research interests lie in urban studies with a focus on counterculture space and cross-cultural research methods.
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Xiaoxue Gao, Technische Universität Berlin, Deutschland
