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Thinking of Space Relationally: Critical Realism Beyond Relativism - A Manifold Study of the Artworld in Beijing
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Abstract 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 ... view more
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, the author 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.... view less
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Free Keywords
Art; Artworld; China; Critical Realism; Relational Space; Science; Sociology of Art; Sociology of Knowledge; Space
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
280 p.
Series
Urban Studies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839455876
ISBN
978-3-8394-5587-6
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed