The reason for my enthusiasm for this book is that Doreen Massey manages tdescribe a certain way of perceiving movement in space which I have been - and still am - working with on different levels in my work: ie the idea that space is not something static and neutral, a frozen entity, but is something intertwined with time and thus ever changing - alswhen we are not occupying it Doreens descriptions of her journey through England for example are clear and precise accounts of this idea, and she very sharply characterizes the attempts not trecognize this idea as utopian and nostalgic
- Olafur Eliasson In this book, Doreen Massey makes an impassioned argument for revitalising our imagination of space She takes on some well-established assumptions from philosophy, and some familiar ways of characterising the twenty-first century world, and shows how they restrain our understanding of both the challenge and the potential of spaceThe way we think about space matters It inflects our understandings of the world, our attitudes tothers, our politics It affects, for instance, the way we understand globalisation, the way we approach cities, the way we develop, and practice, a sense of place If time is the dimension of change then space is the dimension of the social: the contemporaneous co-existence of others That is its challenge, and one that has been persistently evaded For Space pursues its argument through philosophical and theoretical engagement, and through telling personal and political reflection Doreen Massey asks questions such as how best tcharacterise these so-called spatial times, how it is that implicit spatial assumptions inflect our politics, and how we might develop a responsibility for place beyond placeThis book is for space in that it argues for a reinvigoration of the spatiality of our implicit cosmologies For Space is essential reading for anyone interested in space and the spatial turn in the social sciences and humanities Serious, and sometimes irreverent, it is a compelling manifesto: for re-imagining spaces for these times and facing up ttheir challenge
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