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

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...

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Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Urban Studies
Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.)
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Table of 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