Doreen Massey (geographer)
Doreen Massey Prix Vautrin Lud (1998) | |
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Fields | Economic and social geography |
Doreen Barbara Massey
Career
Massey was born in
She then began her career at a thinktank: the Centre for Environmental Studies (CES) in London. CES contained several key analysts of the contemporary British economy. There, Massey established a working partnership with Richard Meegan, among others. When CES closed down she then became Professor of Geography at the Open University.[5]
Massey retired in 2009 but remained a frequent media commentator, particularly on industry and regional trends. As Professor Emerita at the Open University she continued her speaking engagements and involvement in educational TV programmes and books.[6]
Doreen Massey's main fields of study were
Her work on space, place and power has been highly influential within a range of related disciplines and research fields.
Theories
Economic geography
Massey's early work at CES established the basis for her spatial divisions of labour theory (
Over the years this theory has been refined and extended, with space and spatial relationships remaining central to her account of contemporary society.
Geography of gender
As a geographer Massey (1994,[8] 1999[9]) brought the impact of space and place on gendered experiences into the theoretical context of describing spatial ‘values’[10] in contemporary society, thus giving an added dimension, that of social grouping, of when justice is fair as well as equally accessed in space and place. She developed the concepts aired earlier by Bowlby et al[11] on gender-shaped geography. On the editorial board of SEEDS, Massey furthered the understanding of economic geography and related impacts on women's lives as a constant theme throughout the practice-based regional reports, in a series edited by Robin Murray at S.E.E.D.S.[12]
Sense of place
While Massey has argued for the importance of place, her position accords with those arguing against essentialised or static notions,[13] where:
- places do not have single identities but multiple ones.
- places are not frozen in time, they are processes.
- places are not enclosures with a clear inside and outside.
Massey used the example of
Awards and honours
- 2014 - Presidential Achievement Award of the Association of American Geographers
- 2013 - Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Zurich
- 2012 - Honorary Doctorate, Harokopio University, Athens
- 2010 - Hon DSc (Econ), Queen Mary University of London
- 2009 - Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of Glasgow
- 2006 - Honorary DLitt, National University of Ireland
- 2006 - Honorary Doctorate of Science awarded by the University of Edinburgh
- 2003 - Centenary Medal of Royal Scottish Geographical Society
- 2003 - Anders Retzius Medal in Gold, awarded by the Swedish Society of Anthropologists and Geographers
- 2002 - Fellow, British Academy
- 2001 - Honorary Fellow, St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford
- 2000 - Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
- 1999 - Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
- 1998 - Prix Vautrin Lud ('Nobel de Géographie')
- 1994 - Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society
♯ Doreen Massey declined the award of an Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Books
- Cordey-Hayes, M., & D. B. Massey (1970), An operational urban development model of Cheshire. London: Centre for Environmental Studies.
- Massey, D. B. (1971), The basic: service categorisation in planning London: Centre for Environmental Studies.
- Massey, D. B. (1974), Towards a critique of industrial location theory London: Centre for Environmental Studies.
- Massey, D. B., & P. W. J. Batey (eds)(1977), "Alternative Frameworks for analysis", London: Pion (ISBN 085086061X).
- Massey, D. B., & A. Catalano (1978), Capital and land: Landownership by capital in Great Britain. London: Edward Arnold (ISBN 0713161086and 0713161094 pbk).
- Massey, D. B., & R. A. Meegan (1979), The geography of industrial reorganisation: The spatial effects of the restructuring of the electrical engineering sector under the industrial reorganisation corporation. Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press.
- Massey, D. B., & R. A. Meegan (1982), The anatomy of job loss: The how, why, and where of employment decline. London and New York: Methuen.
- Massey, D. B. (1984), Spatial divisions of labour: Social structures and the geography of production. New York: Methuen.
- Massey, D. B. (1987), Nicaragua. Milton Keynes, England and Philadelphia: Open University Press.
- Massey, D. B. (1988), Global restructuring, local responses. Atwood lecture. Worcester, Mass.: Graduate School of Geography, Clark University.
- Ginwala, F., M. Mackintosh & D. B. Massey (1991), Gender and economic policy in a democratic South Africa. Milton Keynes, UK: Development Policy and Practice, Technology Faculty, Open University.
- Massey, D. B. (1994), Space, place, and gender. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.[16]
- Massey, D. B. (1995), Spatial divisions of labor: Social structures and the geography of production, 2nd edition. New York: Routledge.
- Hall, S., Massey, D. B., & M. Rustin (1997), The next ten years. London: Soundings.
- Allen, J., D. B. Massey, A. Cochrane (1998), Rethinking the region. New York: Routledge.
- Massey, D. B (2005), For Space, London: Sage (ISBN 1412903629).
- Massey, D. B. (2007), World City, Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Massey, D. B. (2010), World City, with new Preface: "After the Crash", July 2010. Cambridge: Polity Press.
References
- ^ Lee, Roger. "Doreen Barbara Massey 3 January 1944 – 11 March 2016 elected Fellow of the British Academy 2002" (PDF). www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 July 2020.
- ^ Open University. "Prof Doreen Massey – Profile". Retrieved 16 June 2008.
- ^ "Magazine / Geographical". www.geographical.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 March 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ Staff (17 March 2016). "In Memoriam: Doreen Massey". AAG Newsletter. Archived from the original on 24 May 2021. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ "Staff Profile Prof Doreen Massey". Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ^ Paul Britton (13 March 2016). "Tributes after the death of geographer and acclaimed social scientist Professor Doreen Massey". men.
- ^ Featherstone, David (27 March 2016). "Doreen Massey obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ Massey, D.B. (1994). Space, place, and gender. US: University of Minnesota Press.
- ^ Massey, D., Allen, J. and Sarre, P., 1999., D. (1999). Human geography today. online: e-book.
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- ^ Bowlby, S., Lewis, J., McDowell, L. and Foord, J., S. (1989). "The geography of gender". New Models in Geography: The Political Economy Perspective. 2: 157–175.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "South East Economic Development Strategy (SEEDS)". robinmurray.co.uk.
- ^ Dovey, Kim: Becoming Places, Routledge, 2010
- ^ Massey, Doreen (24 June 1991). "A Global Sense of Place". Marxism Today. 38.
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- ^ Massey, D.B. (1994). Space, place, and gender. US: University of Minnesota Press. Perlego Books