Spatial Politics

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.

• List of Figures viiiNotes on Contributors ixForeword xivSeries Editors’ Preface xixAcknowledgements xxIntroduction: ‘There is no point of departure’: The Many Trajectories of Doreen Massey 1David Featherstone and Joe PainterPart One: Space, Politics and Radical Democracy 191 Space, Hegemony and Radical Critique 21Chantal Mouffe2 Theorising Context 32Lawrence Grossberg3 Power-Geometry as Philosophy of Space 44Arun Saldanha4 Spatial Relations and Human Relations 56Michael Rustin5 Space, Democracy and Difference: For a Post-colonial Perspective 70David SlaterPart Two: Regions, Labour and Uneven Development 856 Spatial Divisions and Regional Assemblages 87Allan Cochrane7 Making Space for Labour 99Jamie Peck8 The Political Challenge of Relational Territory 115Elena dell’AgneseInterlude: Your Gravitational Now 125Olafur EliassonPart Three: Reconceptualising Place 1339 Place and Politics 135Jane Wills10 A Global Sense of Place and Multi-territoriality: Notes for Dialogue from a ‘Peripheral’ Point of View 146Rogério Haesbaert11 A Massey Muse 158Wendy Harcourt, Alice Brooke Wilson, Arturo Escobar and Dianne Rocheleau12 A Physical Sense of World 178Steve HinchliffePart Four: Political Trajectories 18913 Working with Doreen Downunder: Antipodean Trajectories 191Sophie Bond and Sara Kindon14 Doreen Massey: The Light Dances on the Water 204Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift15 Place, Space and Solidarity in Global Justice Networks 213Andrew Cumbers and Paul Routledge16 The Socialist Transformation of Venezuela: The Geographical Dimension of Political Strategy 224Ricardo Menéndez17 Place Beyond Place and the Politics of ‘Empowerment’ 235Hilary Wainwright18 ‘Stories So Far’: A Conversation with Doreen Massey 253Edited by David Featherstone, Sophie Bond and Joe PainterReferences 267Index 289

“[This is] a collection of articles not on Doreen Massey’s work, but rather on how different scholars and activists, many of them Massey’s colleagues and friends, have developed their own ideas informed by hers … Gathering together a bunch of colleagues, activists, artists and political figures, each contributor offers an overview of how their main concerns relate to, or have benefited from, Massey’s concepts. For the scope and significance of her ideas seem to have been enormous; just think of the very different disciplines that have benefited from her spatial vision (take only the ones present in the book: political science, sociology, anthropology, and psychology, even the arts, not to mention the practice of politics itself) … Here we have a group of scholars … taking Massey’s work in new and exciting directions, and we have eighteen excellent examples of how to do it.” (Antipode , 1 September 2013)