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.

List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Foreword xiv Series Editors' Preface xix Acknowledgements xx Introduction: 'There is no point of departure': The Many Trajectories of Doreen Massey 1 David Featherstone and Joe Painter Part One: Space, Politics and Radical Democracy 19 1 Space, Hegemony and Radical Critique 21 Chantal Mouffe 2 Theorising Context 32 Lawrence Grossberg 3 Power-Geometry as Philosophy of Space 44 Arun Saldanha 4 Spatial Relations and Human Relations 56 Michael Rustin 5 Space, Democracy and Difference: For a Post-colonial Perspective 70 David Slater Part Two: Regions, Labour and Uneven Development 85 6 Spatial Divisions and Regional Assemblages 87 Allan Cochrane 7 Making Space for Labour 99 Jamie Peck 8 The Political Challenge of Relational Territory 115 Elena dell'Agnese Interlude: Your Gravitational Now 125 Olafur Eliasson Part Three: Reconceptualising Place 133 9 Place and Politics 135 Jane Wills 10 A Global Sense of Place and Multi-territoriality: Notes for Dialogue from a 'Peripheral' Point of View 146 Rogério Haesbaert 11 A Massey Muse 158 Wendy Harcourt, Alice Brooke Wilson, Arturo Escobar and Dianne Rocheleau 12 A Physical Sense of World 178 Steve Hinchliffe Part Four: Political Trajectories 189 13 Working with Doreen Downunder: Antipodean Trajectories 191 Sophie Bond and Sara Kindon 14 Doreen Massey: The Light Dances on the Water 204 Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift 15 Place, Space and Solidarity in Global Justice Networks 213 Andrew Cumbers and Paul Routledge 16 The Socialist Transformation of Venezuela: The Geographical Dimension of Political Strategy 224 Ricardo Menéndez 17 Place Beyond Place and the Politics of 'Empowerment' 235 Hilary Wainwright 18 'Stories So Far': A Conversation with Doreen Massey 253 Edited by David Featherstone, Sophie Bond and Joe Painter References 267 Index 289

Doreen Massey has transformed contemporary understandings of space, place and politics. This book critically interrogates her ground-breaking contributions to geography and to political debate. Former graduate students, colleagues, geographers and other social scientists, join together with artists, political figures and activists to engage with her ideas. These specially commissioned essays take their inspiration from her style of rigorous theorizing animated by political engagement. Doreen Massey’s geography has always been informed by her involvement with the international women’s movement, socialist experiments in Venezuela and Nicaragua and the Greater London Council of the 1980s, then at the height of its rearguard action against Thatcherite neoliberalism. This landmark text offers a comprehensive overview of her work to date, a series of political and scholarly reflections upon it, and a set of directions for the further development of her ideas. Through serious reflection on Doreen Massey’s contributions the book provides intellectual tools and resources for re-shaping our geographical and political futures.