Selected Political Writings

Doreen Massey was one of the most influential human geographers of the post-war period. A key feminist and socialist thinker, she brought geographical inequality to the fore of left politics. Through her activism, she combined a focus on class with a prescient awareness of its intersections with gender, race and sexuality.

This book is a collection of Doreen Massey’s essential political writings, from reflections on support groups during the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike to assessments of the Sandinistas’ spatial policies and ownership campaigns relating to Liverpool Football Club. It gives a vivid sense of Massey’s dynamic style as a left public intellectual whose work impacted major political initiatives, and introduces her important ‘politics of place’ to a new generation of activists.

Contents:

Introduction

Rethinking region and economy

1. A politics of location (1983)
2. The Shape of Things to Come (1983)
3. Heartlands of Defeat (1987)
4. A new class of geography (1988)
5. Vocabularies of the economy (2013)

New Urban left and beyond

6. The great male moving right show (1984, with Lynne Segaland Hilary Wainwright)
7. Beyond the coalfields: the work of the Miners’ SupportGroups (1985, with Hilary Wainwright)
8. Keep moving on (1985, with Hilary Wainwright)
9. Equal opportunities: the GLEB experience (1987)

Politics of place

10. A Global Sense of Place (1991)
11. Places and their pasts (1995)
12. The Geography of power (2000)

Learning from Latin America

13. Nicaragua: reflections on some socio-spatial issues in a society in transition (1986)
14. Learning from Latin America (2012)
15. Concepts of space and power in theory and in political practice (2009)

Occasional writings

16. Liverpool’s football activists are part of a wider social movement (2010)
17. Exhilarating times (2016)