This book challenges the hyper-production and proliferation of
concepts in modern social research. It presents a distinctive
methodological response to this tendency through an exploration of
one of the most underappreciated yet widely deployed conventions
for the analysis of social processes: the creation of diagrammatic
relational spaces. Designed to capture social processes in a way
that resists reductive and essentialist categories, such spaces
have the capacity to produce powerful, systematic analyses that
break the spell of concept proliferation and its resultant naively
realist approach to explaining the world. Through an exploration of
key examples and series of original case studies, the authors
demonstrate the application of this approach across a variety of
empirical settings and academic disciplines. They thus offer a
relational and pragmatic approach to social research that resists
current trends characterised by supposedly self-evident data and/or
disconnected theory. As such, the book constitutes an important
contribution to some of the central questions in current social
research, and promises to unsettle and reinvigorate considerations
of method across different fields of practice.
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