Over the last year, the Past & Present Reading Group has taken a spatial turn, with a triad of three books of spatial theory from different disciplinary and theoretical frameworks: Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space, Doreen Massey’s Spatial Divisions of Labour, and most [...]
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Review of: Pamela Odih, Adsensory Urban Ecology (2 vols.), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2019. HB 978-1-5275-2468-2
This is raw political economy. Odih, a teacher at Goldsmiths, befriends neighbours of the Grenfell Tower fire; ill-fated trees of the Thames bank; the [...]
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Discussing the analytical and political challenges
It is important to have a spatial or geographical dimension to political economic analysis, just as it is important to recognise its temporal dimension. In the real world, all human activity occurs in both space and time. Any [...]
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To higher-degree research students within the School of Social and Political Sciences,
We are soon commencing a project launching a series of podcasts on Progress in Political Economy (PPE) and would like to have you as participants of this exciting project!
The aim of [...]
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The idea of centrist politics as associated with moral ideals such as temperance is one which has become increasingly attractive to those who feel threatened by political polarisation from “both sides”. Last week’s British political news demonstrates this preoccupation, [...]
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To read Doreen Massey is to traverse the labyrinth-like history of the British New Left from their rupture in the radical sixties to the rolling crisis of the Great Recession. From her working-class origins in the Wythenshawe public-housing estate in Greater Manchester to her academic [...]
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What is the unitary theory of space that is awaiting to be discovered in The Production of Space?
“Intellectual labour, like material labour, is subject to endless division”, Lefebvre says. “The aim is to discover or construct theoretical unity between ‘fields’ which are apprehended [...]
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Doreen Massey: Critical Dialogues recognises that just as there is no point of departure for a dialogue, there is no point of conclusion. Dialogues with Massey continue even in her absence. The book spans twenty-six chapters, along with a variant on the introduction to the companion The [...]
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