Incidentally, I don't think there is a non-adjectival 'globalisation'. What we have now is a particular form: dominated by finance and multinational corporations and by a rhetoric (though not a reality) of 'free trade' and market forces. So I'm not… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
For me, places are articulations of 'natural' and social relations, relations that are not fully contained within the place itself. So, first, places are not closed or bounded - which, politically, lays the ground for critiques of exclusivity. Second, places are not 'given' - they are always in open-ended process. They are in that sense 'events'. Third, they and their… — Doreen Massey Copy Share
You ask why London has to 'stand for' anything. One response is that in fact it always inevitably does. One could say at the moment it stands for a complex mix of multiculturalism and financial power. Interestingly, that is a political mix of progressive and oppressive. What I'm arguing is simply that we should take responsibility for the effects of… — Doreen Massey Copy Share
Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious. — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
If time is the dimension of change, then space is the dimension of coexisting difference. And that is both a source of nourishment (something… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
Much of life for many people, even in the heart of the First World, still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
The problem with the finance sector is not that it has crashed (though that has done enormous damage around the world) but the damage… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I don't think there is a non-adjectival 'globalisation'. What we have now is a particular form: dominated by finance and multinational corporations and… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
