Spatial Politics
Essays For Doreen Massey
Published on 5. November 2012
328 pages
978-1-118-27883-3 (ISBN)
Description
This critical engagement with Doreen Massey'sground-breaking work in geographic theory and its relationship topolitics features specially commissioned essays from formerstudents and colleagues, as well as the artists, political figuresand activists whose thinking she has helped to shape. It seeks tomark and take forward her compelling contributions to geographicaltheorizing and political debate.
* High profile contributors include Lawrence Grossberg, ChantalMouffe, Jamie Peck and Jane Wills
* The global reach and significance of Massey's workrecommends this volume to a diverse readership
* Provides an agenda for work on spatial politics and criticalgeography
* Sets out the contours of a human geography informed by DoreenMassey's work
Reviews / Votes
"[This is] a collection of articles not on DoreenMassey's work, but rather on how different scholars andactivists, many of them Massey's colleagues and friends, havedeveloped their own ideas informed by hers ... Gatheringtogether a bunch of colleagues, activists, artists and politicalfigures, each contributor offers an overview of how their mainconcerns relate to, or have benefited from, Massey'sconcepts. For the scope and significance of her ideas seem to havebeen enormous; just think of the very different disciplines thathave benefited from her spatial vision (take only the ones presentin the book: political science, sociology, anthropology, andpsychology, even the arts, not to mention the practice of politicsitself) ... Here we have a group of scholars ... takingMassey's work in new and exciting directions, and we haveeighteen excellent examples of how to do it."(Antipode , 1 September 2013)More details
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David Featherstone is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK. He studied with Doreen Massey for a PhD at the Open University in the late 1990s. His research focuses on transnational social movements and on the relations between space and politics. He is the author of Resistance Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), and Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism (2012).
Joe Painter is Professor of Geography at Durham University, UK. He also gained his PhD with Doreen Massey at the Open University, a decade earlier than his co-editor. The author (with Alex Jeffrey) of Political Geography: An Introduction to Space and Power (2009), his current research focuses on the prosaic geographies of the state.
Content
List of Figures viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Foreword xiv
Series Editors' Preface xix
Acknowledgements xx
Introduction: 'There is no point of departure': The ManyTrajectories of Doreen Massey 1
David Featherstone and Joe Painter
Part One: Space, Politics and Radical Democracy 19
1 Space, Hegemony and Radical Critique 21
Chantal Mouffe
2 Theorising Context 32
Lawrence Grossberg
3 Power-Geometry as Philosophy of Space 44
Arun Saldanha
4 Spatial Relations and Human Relations 56
Michael Rustin
5 Space, Democracy and Difference: For a Post-colonialPerspective 70
David Slater
Part Two: Regions, Labour and Uneven Development 85
6 Spatial Divisions and Regional Assemblages 87
Allan Cochrane
7 Making Space for Labour 99
Jamie Peck
8 The Political Challenge of Relational Territory 115
Elena dell'Agnese
Interlude: Your Gravitational Now 125
Olafur Eliasson
Part Three: Reconceptualising Place 133
9 Place and Politics 135
Jane Wills
10 A Global Sense of Place and Multi-territoriality: Notes forDialogue from a 'Peripheral' Point of View 146
Rogério Haesbaert
11 A Massey Muse 158
Wendy Harcourt, Alice Brooke Wilson, Arturo Escobar and DianneRocheleau
12 A Physical Sense of World 178
Steve Hinchliffe
Part Four: Political Trajectories 189
13 Working with Doreen Downunder: Antipodean Trajectories191
Sophie Bond and Sara Kindon
14 Doreen Massey: The Light Dances on the Water 204
Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift
15 Place, Space and Solidarity in Global Justice Networks213
Andrew Cumbers and Paul Routledge
16 The Socialist Transformation of Venezuela: The GeographicalDimension of Political Strategy 224
Ricardo Menéndez
17 Place Beyond Place and the Politics of 'Empowerment'235
Hilary Wainwright
18 'Stories So Far': A Conversation with Doreen Massey 253
Edited by David Featherstone, Sophie Bond and JoePainter
References 267
Index 289
