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Doreen Massey was a creative scholar, inspiring teacher and restless activist. Her path-breaking thinking about space, place, politics and economy changed not only geography but the critical social sciences, initiating new ways of seeing, understanding and indeed transforming the world.
This collection of commissioned essays, including from Doreen Massey's long-time interlocutors and collaborators, explores both the generative sources and the continuing potential of her remarkably wide-ranging and influential body of work. It provides an unparalleled assessment of the political and social context that gave rise to many of Massey's key ideas and contributions - such as spatial divisions of labour, power-geometries and the global sense of place - and how they subsequently travelled, and were translated and transformed, both within and outside of academia.
Looking forward, rather than merely backward, the collection also highlights the many ways in which Massey's formulations and frameworks provide a basis for new interventions in contemporary debates over immigration, financialization, macroeconomic crises, political engagement beyond academia, and more.
Doreen Massey: Critical Dialogues is a testament to the continuing relevance of Doreen Massey's work across a wide range of fields, serving as an invaluable companion to the new collection of Massey's own writings, The Doreen Massey Reader published simultaneously and also compiled by the editors.
Contents
1. Out of place: Doreen Massey, radical geographer Jamie Peck, Marion Werner, Rebecca Lave and Brett Christophers
Part I: Contexts 2. North and South: spatial divisions in a life lived geographically Linda McDowell
3. He dark past Trevor Barnes
4. Trainspotting in Bethlehem Michael Dear
5. Becoming a geographer: Massey moments in a spatial education Gillian Hart
6. Why did space matter to Doreen Massey? Michael Rustin
7. Ontology and the politics of space Andrew Sayer
8. Doreen matters: ways of understanding and being in the world Nuria Benach and Abel Albet
9. Just carry on being different Susan M. Roberts
Part II: Conjunctures 10. From "the" North to "the" South: spatializing the conjuncture in British cultural studies John Pickles
11. Reflections on Capital and Land by Massey and Catalano Richard Walker and Erica Schoenberger
12. The road to Brexit on the British coalfields Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson
13. Industrial restructuring and spatial divisions of labour: understanding uneven regional development in the UK Richard Meegan
14. Where is London? Allan Cochrane
15. Finding place in the conjuncture: a dialogue with Doreen John Clarke
16. Lampedusa in Hamburg and the "throwntogetherness" of global city citizenship Matthew Sparke and Katharyne Mitchell
17. Hegemonies are not totalities! Repoliticizing poverty as resistance Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood
Part III: Connections 18. Doreen Massey's urban political ecology Nik Heynen, Nikki Luke and Caroline Keegan
19. The sociogeomorphology of river restoration: dam removal and the politics of place Francis Magilligan, Christopher Sneddon and Coleen Fox
20. Film and thinking space Geraldine Pratt with Jessica Jacobs
21. Geographical imaginations of pension divestment campaigns Kendra Strauss
22. Doreen Massey and Latin America Perla Zusman
23. Grassroots struggles for the city of the many: from the politics of spatiality to the spatialities of politics Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard
24. Towards a queer phenomenology of social reproduction: insights from life histories of informal economy workers in urban india Priti Ramamurthy and Vinay Gidwani
25. Barriers, benchmarks, bad hombres: global factory, supply chains and labour at the Mexico-US border Christian Berndt
26. Place and the power-geometries of migration Jennifer Hyndman and Alison Mountz
Epilogue: "How we will miss that chuckle": my friend, Doreen Massey Hilary Wainwright
