D Featherstone

Broschiertes Buch

Spatial Politics

Essays for Doreen Massey

Herausgeber: Featherstone, David; Painter, Joe

Beschreibung

Doreen Massey has transformed contemporary understandings of space, place and politics. This book critically interrogates her ground-breaking contributions to geography and to political debate. Former graduate students, colleagues, geographers and other social scientists, join together with artists, political figures and activists to engage with her ideas. These specially commissioned essays take their inspiration from her style of rigorous theorizing animated by political engagement. Doreen Massey's geography has always been informed by her involvement with the international women's movement, socialist experiments in Venezuela and Nicaragua and the Greater London Council of the 1980s, then at the height of its rearguard action against Thatcherite neoliberalism. This landmark text offers a comprehensive overview of her work to date, a series of political and scholarly reflections upon it, and a set of directions for the further development of her ideas. Through serious reflection on Doreen Massey's contributions the book provides intellectual tools and resources for re-shaping our geographical and political futures.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781444338300
• ISBN-10: 1444338307
• Artikelnr.: 35454106

Rezensionen

"[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)