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.

These essays interrogate both the generative sources and the potential of Doreen Massey's remarkably wide-ranging and influential work and provide an unparalleled assessment of the context that gave rise to Massey's key ideas and how they subsequently travelled, and were translated and transformed, both within and outside of academia.

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