For Space by Doreen B Massey
Presenting an impassioned argument for revitalising our imagination of space, Doreen Massey takes on some well-established assumptions from philosophy, and some familiar ways of characterising the twenty-first century world, and shows how they restrain our understanding of both the challenge and the potential of space.
"Doreen Massey is one of the most profound thinkers in contemporary human geography, and her work addresses fundamental issues with great insightThis is a work of enormous ambition, breadth, and depth, and not a little complexity." -- David M. Smith
"The reason for my enthusiasm for this book is that Doreen Massey manages to describe a certain way of perceiving movement in space which I have been - and still am - working with on different levels in my work: i.e. the idea that space is not something static and neutral, a frozen entity, but is something intertwined with time and thus ever changing - also when we are not occupying it. Doreen′s descriptions of her journey through England for example are clear and precise accounts of this idea, and she very sharply characterizes the attempts not to recognize this idea as utopian and nostalgic." -- Olaffur Eliasson
"Destined to be widely read by many who are not geographers... in a publishing market currently so driven by what publishers think students will read, its lack of fit into established genres is hugely refreshing... a great book to read in terms of its head-on engagement with the spatial." -- Geographical Research
"The reason for my enthusiasm for this book is that Doreen Massey manages to describe a certain way of perceiving movement in space which I have been - and still am - working with on different levels in my work: i.e. the idea that space is not something static and neutral, a frozen entity, but is something intertwined with time and thus ever changing - also when we are not occupying it. Doreen′s descriptions of her journey through England for example are clear and precise accounts of this idea, and she very sharply characterizes the attempts not to recognize this idea as utopian and nostalgic." -- Olaffur Eliasson
"Destined to be widely read by many who are not geographers... in a publishing market currently so driven by what publishers think students will read, its lack of fit into established genres is hugely refreshing... a great book to read in terms of its head-on engagement with the spatial." -- Geographical Research
From 1982 to 2009, Doreen Massey (1944-2016) was a professor of geography at the Open University. Before joining the OU, she worked at the Centre for Environmental Studies in London, which was notoriously dissolved by Margaret Thatcher's government. She was a fellow of the British Academy and the winner of the Prix Vautrin Lud, known as the Nobel Prize of geography.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781412903622 |
| ISBN 10 | 1412903629 |
| Title | For Space |
| Author | Doreen B Massey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2005-02-08 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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