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Book SynopsisDoreen Massey is one of the most profound thinkers in contemporary human geography, and her work addresses fundamental issues with great insight. This is a work of enormous ambition, breadth, and depth, and not a little complexity.
- David M. Smith, Queen Mary, University of London 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 . 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 Trade Review"Doreen Massey is one of the most profound thinkers in contemporary human geography, and her work addresses fundamental issues with great insight. This 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
Table of ContentsPART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE Opening Propositions PART TWO: UNPROMISING ASSOCIATIONS Space/Representation The Prison-House of Synchrony The Horizontalities of Deconstruction The Life in Space PART THREE: LIVING IN SPATIAL TIMES? Spatializing the History of Modernity Instantaneity/Depthlessness Aspatial Globalization (Contrary to Popular Opinion) Space Cannot Be Annihilated by Time Elements for Alternatives PART FOUR: RE-ORIENTATIONS Slices through Space The Elusiveness of Place PART FIVE: A RELATIONAL POLITICS OF THE SPATIAL ′Throwntogetherness′: The Politics of the Event of Place There Are No Rules of Space and Place Making and Contesting Time-Spaces
