
Thinking of Space Relationally
Critical Realism Beyond Relativism - A Manifold Study of the Artworld in Beijing
Xiaoxue Gao(Author)
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Published on 15. April 2025
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282 pages
978-3-8376-5587-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2020
Technische Universität Berlin
Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
25
9 s/w Abbildungen, 16 farbige Abbildungen
Klebebindung, 12 SW-Abbildungen, 28 Farbabbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
442 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8376-5587-2 (9783837655872)
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Thinking of Space Relationally
Critical Realism Beyond Relativism - A Manifold Study of the Artworld in Beijing
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Xiaoxue Gao (Dr. phil.), born in 1987, works as a project__manager and post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Architecture at Technical University of Berlin. Prior to that, she researched and studied in urban planning, human geography and sociology of space. She is interested in researching spatial transformation with a focus on counterculture space in China, and in exploring the cross-cultural social-spatial research methodologies.
Content
List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgment; Introduction; Conceptual elucidations; Accounts of social space in traditional Chinese thought; Recontextualizing theoretical knowledge of space and the local context of knowing; Critical realism methodology and the study of an artworld; Conclusion; References.