![]() Foucault wrote in the later part of his life that, yes, he thought we’d often been thinking of space like that and that was wrong, and I agree with Foucault in that later moment.Ī lot of what I’ve been trying to do over the all too many years when I’ve been writing about space is to bring space alive, to dynamize it and to make it relevant, to emphasize how important space is in the lives in which we live, and in the organization of the societies in which we live. And a lot of us, I think, implicitly think of space as a kind of flat surface out there -we ‘cross space’ – and space is therefore devoid of temporality: it is without time, it is without dynamism, it is a kind of flat, inert given. So time is the dimension of change, and of dynamism, and of the life we live, and all the rest of it and space became the dimension that wasn’t all of that. And space became a kind of residual dimension: it’s always ‘time and space’. Nigel Warburton: So, in your own work about space what do you focus on?ĭoreen Massey: Right, well one of the things in the sense was anger: I got really annoyed with the rest of the social sciences, and indeed with philosophers, paying so much attention to time. Whereas historians concentrate on the temporal dimension, how things change over time what geographers concentrate on is the way in which things are arranged- we would often say ‘geographically’, – I’m here saying ‘over space.’ What I do in geography is not space meaning ‘outer space’, or space meaning ‘atomic space’, or any of that it is space as that dimension of the world in which we live. Now, some people might think that that’s a topic for physicists or architects, why is it a topic for geographers?ĭoreen Massey: I think the immediate way to respond is that if history is about time, geography is about space. Nigel Warburton: The topic we are going to focus on is space. Nigel Warburton: Doreen Massey welcome to Social Science Bites. She believes that an analysis of spatial relations between, for example, people, cities, jobs, is key to an understanding of politics and power. Professor Massey is a geographer who wants us to rethink many of our assumptions about space, including the assumption that it is simply something we pass through. ![]() *** David Edmonds: Doreen Massey has made her reputation by studying space, not outer space, space here on planet Earth. For a complete listing of past Social Science Bites podcasts, click here. Social Science Bites is made in association with SAGE. To directly download this podcast, right click HERE and “Save Link As.” In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast she explains why.Ĭlick HEREto download a PDF transcript of this conversation. Geographer Doreen Massey wants us to rethink our assumptions about space. ![]()
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