Book description
This critical engagement with Doreen Massey's ground-breaking work in
geographic theory and its relationship to politics features specially
commissioned essays from former students and colleagues, as well as
the artists, political figures and activists whose thinking she has
helped to shape. It seeks to mark and take forward her compelling
contributions to geographical theorizing and political debate.
- High profile contributors include Lawrence Grossberg, Chantal
Mouffe, Jamie Peck and Jane Wills
- The global reach and significance of Massey's work recommends this
volume to a diverse readership
- Provides an agenda for work on spatial politics and critical geography
- Sets out the contours of a human geography informed by Doreen
Massey's work
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.
