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

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.

In English.

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