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Index
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
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: Spatial divisions in a life lived geographically
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: Massey moments in a spatial education
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: Ways of understanding and being in the world
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: Spatializing the conjuncture in British cultural studies
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: Understanding uneven regional development in the UK
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: A dialogue with Doreen
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!: Repoliticizing poverty as resistance
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: Dam removal and the politics of place
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: From the politics of spatiality to the spatialities of politics
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: Insights from life histories of informal economy workers in urban India
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 : Global factory, supply chains and SPATIAL DIVISIONS OF labour at the Mexico–US border
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: “How we will miss that chuckle”
Select bibliography of Doreen Massey
Index
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