Thinking of Space Relationally Critical Realism Beyond Relativism – A Manifold Study of the Artworld in Beijing Xiaoxue Gao

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Gao, Xiaoxue <p>Xiaoxue Gao, Technische Universität Berlin, Deutschland</p>, Author.

Contributor:

Technische Universität Berlin, Funder.

Series:

Urban Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relational Space.

Critical Realism.

Artworld.

China.

Space.

Art.

Science.

Sociology of Knowledge.

Sociology of Art.

Sociology.

Local Subjects:

Relational Space.

Critical Realism.

Artworld.

China.

Space.

Art.

Science.

Sociology of Knowledge.

Sociology of Art.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Gao, Thinking of Space Relationally Critical Realism Beyond Relativism – A Manifold Study of the Artworld in Beijing

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgment

1 Introduction

Section One: Thinking of space relationally: traveling epistemic frames and local context of knowing and doing

2 Conceptual elucidations

3 Accounts of social space in traditional Chinese thought

4 Recontextualizing theoretical knowledge of space and the local context of knowing

Section Two: The retroductive empirical research on the spatial constitution of Beijing's artworld

5 Critical realism methodology and the study of an artworld

6 Conclusion

References

Appendix: anonymized interview list

Notes:

Doctoral Thesis Technische Universität Berlin 2020

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ISBN:

9783839455876

3839455871

OCLC:

1248760063