Spatial Politics

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

This critical engagement with Doreen Massey'sground-breaking work in geographic theory and its relationship topolitics features specially commissioned essays from formerstudents and colleagues, as well as the artists, political figuresand activists whose thinking she has helped to shape. It seeks tomark and take forward her compelling contributions to geographicaltheorizing and political debate.* High profile contributors include Lawrence Grossberg, ChantalMouffe, Jamie Peck and Jane Wills* The global reach and significance of Massey's workrecommends this volume to a diverse readership* Provides an agenda for work on spatial politics and criticalgeography* Sets out the contours of a human geography informed by DoreenMassey's work

List of Figures viiiNotes on Contributors ixForeword xivSeries Editors' Preface xixAcknowledgements xxIntroduction: 'There is no point of departure': The Many Trajectories of Doreen Massey 1David Featherstone and Joe PainterPart One: Space, Politics and Radical Democracy 191 Space, Hegemony and Radical Critique 21Chantal Mouffe2 Theorising Context 32Lawrence Grossberg3 Power-Geometry as Philosophy of Space 44Arun Saldanha4 Spatial Relations and Human Relations 56Michael Rustin5 Space, Democracy and Difference: For a Post-colonial Perspective 70David SlaterPart Two: Regions, Labour and Uneven Development 856 Spatial Divisions and Regional Assemblages 87Allan Cochrane7 Making Space for Labour 99Jamie Peck8 The Political Challenge of Relational Territory 115Elena dell'AgneseInterlude: Your Gravitational Now 125Olafur EliassonPart Three: Reconceptualising Place 1339 Place and Politics 135Jane Wills10 A Global Sense of Place and Multi-territoriality: Notes for Dialogue from a 'Peripheral' Point of View 146Rogério Haesbaert11 A Massey Muse 158Wendy Harcourt, Alice Brooke Wilson, Arturo Escobar and Dianne Rocheleau12 A Physical Sense of World 178Steve HinchliffePart Four: Political Trajectories 18913 Working with Doreen Downunder: Antipodean Trajectories 191Sophie Bond and Sara Kindon14 Doreen Massey: The Light Dances on the Water 204Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift15 Place, Space and Solidarity in Global Justice Networks 213Andrew Cumbers and Paul Routledge16 The Socialist Transformation of Venezuela: The Geographical Dimension of Political Strategy 224Ricardo Menéndez17 Place Beyond Place and the Politics of 'Empowerment' 235Hilary Wainwright18 'Stories So Far': A Conversation with Doreen Massey 253Edited by David Featherstone, Sophie Bond and Joe PainterReferences 267Index 289