Spatial Politics

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

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David Featherstone is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK. He studied with Doreen Massey for a PhD at the Open University in the late 1990s. His research focuses on transnational social movements and on the relations between space and politics. He is the author of Resistance Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), and Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism (2012).

Joe Painter is Professor of Geography at Durham University, UK. He also gained his PhD with Doreen Massey at the Open University, a decade earlier than his co-editor. The author (with Alex Jeffrey) of Political Geography: An Introduction to Space and Power (2009), his current research focuses on the prosaic geographies of the state.

D. Featherstone, University of Glasgow, UK; J. Painter, University of Durham, UK