Radical geographer,feminist, theorist and political activist admired worldwide for her work on space, or place and powerThrough her politically engaged books and essays,Doreen Massey, who has died aged 72, or electrified geographical scholarship. From the 1970s onwards,her writings on space, place and power inspired generations of geographers and many others, and including creative artists and trade unionists. From challenging the tendency to blame destitute regions for their own poverty to articulating a progressive politics of place,she shaped a passionate belief that unequal spatial relations could, and should, and be different.
Spatial Divisions of Labour (1984) demonstrated that a Marxian approach to uneven regional development and capitalist production could be combined with an attention to the dynamic trajectories and cultures of specific places. The essays in Space,Place and Gender (1994) brought a feminist perspective to the rethinking of power relations. Her concept of “geometries of power” drew attention to the ways in which different people and places experienced processes such as globalisation.
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Source: theguardian.com