Doreen Massey

Details

Nationality

British

Classifications

Holder

Individual

Source of authority

ReasonObservation

Subject

Human centred

Political position

Subaltern resistant

Mode of transmission

Text drawing

Knowledge type

Propositional

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Notes

[DRAFT] British geographer who recast space as relational, dynamic and political. Her concepts of 'power-geometry', a 'progressive sense of place' and the spatial division of labour brought gender and uneven development into the analysis of space; 'For Space' (2005) is a key statement.

Connections

• proposed Power-Geometry of Space
• authored For Space
• proposed Relational Space
• critiqued Henri Lefebvre
• proposed Marxist/feminist critique of ANT symmetry
• critiqued Bruno Latour

Referenced by

• Kim Dovey relates to

Sources

1. Doreen Massey. For Space. Sage, 2005.
2. Social Science Space obituary. n.d.. https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2016/03/the-geographer-of-space-and-power-doreen-massey-1944-2016/.
3. Doreen Massey. Space, Place and Gender. Polity Press, 1994.
4. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 6-7 of 41