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Mar 14, 2016 · Massey’s academic career combined that geographer’s focus on space with an advocate’s focus on inequality and class. Early in her career she theorized about the spatial divisions of labor, which she would describe as ‘power geography.’.
Mar 7, 2023 · The Marxist idea of time-space compression is often referred to by Massey as a way to understand power and spatial relations in capitalism’s new phase of globalisation. Time-space compression refers to the processes by which places that are far apart start to appear closer.
Jun 21, 2017 · Underpinning all her meditations on space and place is the notion of ‘space–time’ – of space not being secondary to time or representing stasis but inextricably interwoven dynamically with time (Massey, Citation 1992, Citation 2001).
- Richard Meegan
- 2017
Theories. Economic geography. Massey's early work at CES established the basis for her spatial divisions of labour theory (Power Geometry), that social inequalities were generated by the unevenness of the capitalist economy, creating stark divisions between rich and poor regions and between social classes.
Feb 1, 2013 · David Edmonds: Doreen Massey has made her reputation by studying space, not outer space, space here on planet Earth. Professor Massey is a geographer who wants us to rethink many of our assumptions about space, including the assumption that it is simply something we pass through.
The essays in this section offer the reader a view of the arc of Massey’s thought on space as a relationship of power. Her approach to space developed first and foremost in the wake of the radical turn in geography of the 1970s.
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It is sure to remain an essential touchstone for social theory and critical geography for generations to come. Doreen Massey (1944–2016) changed geography. Her ideas on space, region, labour, identity, ethics and capital transformed the field itself, while also attractin...
