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

Since the spatial and relational turns in the social sciences, it has become self-evident that one needs to combat methodological universalism and nationalism and explain the constitution of space relationally. Following the sociology of knowledge approach, Xiaoxue Gao takes relational spatial theor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gao, Xiaoxue (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2021]
Series:Urban Studies
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Social Sciences
Sciences sociales.
social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Social sciences
Art.
Artworld.
China.
Critical Realism.
Science.
Sociology of Art.
Sociology of Knowledge.
Sociology.
Space.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Since the spatial and relational turns in the social sciences, it has become self-evident that one needs to combat methodological universalism and nationalism and explain the constitution of space relationally. Following the sociology of knowledge approach, Xiaoxue Gao takes relational spatial theories as `travelling conceptual knowledge', distinguishes them, and reflects on the `epistemic fallacy' which arises from re-contextualising them uncritically in studying contemporary urban space in China. Taking Critical Realism as a meta-theory, this book offers a methodology which leaps productively from causal hypotheses in plural travelling theories to explanations of locally observable events. It is exemplified in interrogating the poly-contextual formation of the artworld in Beijing as a conjunctive multiplicity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (282 pages)
ISBN:3839455871
9783839455876