The phrase recalls rene magrittes famous inscription below a painting of a pipe. Doreen massey, the geographer of space and power, died on march 11 at age 72. Massey has organized these debates around the three themes of space, place, and gender. Concepts of space and power in theory and in political. She was a professor of geography at open university. Smith, queen mary, university of london the reason for my enthusiasm for this book is that doreen massey manages to describe a certain way of.
Doreen masseys main fields of study were globalisation, regional uneven development, cities, and the reconceptualisation of place. She takes on some wellestablished assumptions from philosophy, and some familiar ways of characterising the 21st century world, and shows how they restrain our understanding of both the challenge and the potential of space. Editions of space, place, and gender by doreen massey. For space doreen massey, professor doreen b massey. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading for space. The reason for my enthusiasm for this book is that doreen massey manages to describe a certain way of perceiving movement in space which i have been and still am working with on different levels in my work. Massey, 9781412903622, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. On the one hand, from a wide variety of sources come proclamations of the significance of the spatial in these times. Shop amongst our popular books, including 19, a place in the world.
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Doreen massey examines the nature of mobility in the era of globalisation and what this means for our sense of place t his is an era it is often said when things are speeding up, and spreading out. There is a long history of the entanglement of the conceptualisation of space and place with the framing of political positions. Her books have gained acclaim in many parts of the world, particularly in the west. Questioning the implicit assumptions that we make about space, this text considers conventional notions of social science, as well as demonstrating how a vigorous understanding of space can impact on political consequences. This new book brings together doreen masseys key writings on threeareas central to a range of disciplines.
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Doreen massey is one of the most profound thinkers in. In this episode of the social science bites podcast she explains why. On page 108 of for space, an impassioned book that discloses the theoretical and political challenges of thinking space, a map of part of the southeast of england is inscribed with a very simple if perhaps initially puzzling phrase. Her ideas on space, region, identity, ethics, and capital transformed the field itself, while also attracting a wide audience in planning, political economy, cultural studies, gender studies, and beyond. A lot of what ive been trying to do over the all too many years when ive been writing about space, she told interviewer nigel warburton in a 20 social science bites interview that remains one of our most popular, is to bring space alive, to dynamize it and to make it relevant, to.
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