Gao Thinking of Space Relationally

Critical Realism Beyond Relativism - A Manifold Study of the Artworld in Beijing
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-8394-5587-6
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Urban Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gao, Xiaoxue

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Gao, Xiaoxue
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.

Xiaoxue Gao (Dr. phil.), born in 1987, is post-doc at the Institute of Architecture at Technical University of Berlin. She did her doctorate at TU Berlin, at the chair of planning and architecture sociology. Prior to that, Xiaoxue gained her bachelor's in urban planning from Tianjin University and master's in human geography from Peking University. She engages in practice of urban planning and art criticism. Her research interests lie in urban studies with a focus on counterculture space and cross-cultural research methods.