Doreen Massey: Critical Dialogues

Cover Half-title Series information Title page Copyright information Table of contents Acknowledgments List of contributors Chapter 1 Out Of Place: Doreen Massey, Radical Geographer Out of Manchester Industrial Dislocations Locality Effects A view from somewhere Articulating difference Relational Space Locating Responsibility The Book Ahead References Part I Contexts Chapter 2 North and south Two places Place matters: growing up in the northwest Growing up in the fifties The life of “clever girls” Moving across borders: Oxford in the early 1960s A life in London References Chapter 3 Her dark past Introduction Early life (1944–68) The Centre for Environmental Studies 1968 and all that: Doreen Massey at CES The Philadelphia story All change: mind the gap Conclusion References Chapter 4 Trainspotting in Bethlehem London, 1966–69: introductions London, 1969–71: preparations Philadelphia, 1971–72: regional science at Penn Aftermath: 1972–2014 Kilburn: 18 May 2014 References Chapter 5 Becoming a geographer Moments of convergence Moments of divergence References Chapter 6 Why did space matter to Doreen Massey? Experiences of mobility The new geography Space and time Philosophical realism, objects and categories References Chapter 7 Ontology and the politics of space References Chapter 8 Doreen matters Geography matters A relational view of space Beyond the purely academic References Chapter 9 Just carry on being different Place, difference and debate Stretched-out social relations Just carry on being different References Part II Conjunctures Chapter 10 From “the” North to “the” South Introduction Place, space and politics Context and conjuncture Nature From “the” North to “the” South Conclusion in Kilburn References Chapter 11 Reflections on Capital and Land by Massey and Catalano References Chapter 12 The road to Brexit on the British coalfields Setting the scene 1984 and its legacies The localities debate and its aftermath Brexit and what of the future? References Chapter 13 Industrial restructuring and spatial divisions of labour Introduction Understanding uneven development: industrial restructuring and spatial divisions of labour Spatial divisions of labour: the radical critique The locality debate: much ado about something Broadening the analysis Understanding uneven development in the UK: spatial divisions of labour and social relations of production Understanding uneven development London – “World City” The southern “sunbelt” The ongoing restructuring of “old industrial Britain” Spatial divisions of labour and social relations of production Conclusion: “spatial divisions of labour” revisited References Chapter 14 Where is London? THE (MORE THAN) LOCAL POLITICS OF A GLOBAL CITY The (peculiar) case of London Locating a global city region in a national context Brexit and beyond Back to London: living in a world city Towards a more complex political geography: possibilities and prospects References Chapter 15 Finding place in the conjuncture Telling the time: the conjuncture as condensed temporalities Taking place: the spaces of the conjuncture The unsettled hyphen: nation-states and the management of neoliberalization “Taking back control”: insurgent nationalism and the promise of power References Chapter 16 Lampedusa in Hamburg and the “throwntogetherness” of global city citizenship Lampedusa in Hamburg and urban throwntogetherness Lampedusa in Hamburg and geopolitical throwntogetherness Lampedusa in Hamburg and geosocial throwntogetherness Complicating conclusions about global city citizenship References Chapter 17 Hegemonies are not totalities! Introduction Poverty as one site for building alternative politics Thinkable poverty politics Unthinkable poverty politics Solidarities and spatial politics References Part III Connections Chapter 18 Doreen Massey’s urban political ecology Introduction Anticipating urban political ecology Massey’s expanding politics of nature Climate change politics Conclusions References Chapter 19 The sociogeomorphology of river restoration Introduction Towards a sociogeomorphology of river restoration “The past isn’t dead, it isn’t even past” “You want me to predict what?” New paradigms and novel ecosystems Physical and human geography as a shared sociogeomorphic project Conclusion References Chapter 20 Film and thinking space In Screen Conversations off screen On screen in Significant Geographies References Chapter 21 Geographical imaginations of pension divestment campaigns Introduction Geographical imaginations and power-geometries The relational geography of fossil fuel divestment Fiduciary duty and the prudent investor Conclusion References Chapter 22 Doreen Massey and Latin America Introduction The openness of space and Latin American views Final thoughts References Chapter 23 Grassroots struggles for the city of the many Introduction Towards a politics of spatiality Urban commoning in Los Angeles and Jakarta Los Angeles’ worker centres Jakarta’s kampungs Reflections References Chapter 24 Towards a queer phenomenology of social reproduction Introduction “Social reproduction” in three moments Fieldwork and research design Orientations, disorientations and reorientations to social reproduction Embodiments of imagination and reorientations Conclusion References Chapter 25 The global factory in a rearticulated spatial division of labour Geographies of supply chain capitalism What’s next? References Chapter 26 Place and the power-geometries of migration Introduction Historicizing Regional Change: “rounds of accumulation” Power-geometries The new mobilities paradigm v. power-geometry Power-geometry: uneven access to movement Conclusion References Epilogue Select bibliography of Doreen Massey Index