What if a longstanding monument or a building can slice through history (time) and geography (space) to provide past and present insights on the construction of place? Essentially this has been a question explicitly carried throughout one aspect of my ongoing research on spatial political [...]
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The Past & Present Reading Group has reengaged its spatial turn since completing Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space; Doreen Massey, Spatial Divisions of Labour; and Jennifer Robinson, Ordinary Cities. It has done so also by travelling outside the Anglophone and European scholarly world to [...]
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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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