Doreen Massey (geographer)

Doreen Barbara Massey ( born January 3, 1944 in Manchester, England) is a British geographer. She is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the Open University in Milton Keynes.

Life

After a bachelor's degree in geography at the University of Oxford Massey initially proposed no university career, but instead worked until its closure in 1980 the pro-government think tank Centre for Environmental Studies. In 1972 a master's degree at the University of Pennsylvania, at that time probably the most important location regionally scientific research, the economic scientific and mathematical embossed approach them, however, did not join in their further research. Although she had never received his doctorate, Massey in 1982 professor at the Open University, where she remained until her retirement in 2009.

Work

Massey is considered as the most-cited Humangeographin and coined among others, the emergence of a feminist geography, the theoretical and conceptual approach of human geography and sociology, as well as the debates about the emerging globalization from the late 1970s with decisive.

Awards

• Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1994
• Prix ​​Vautrin Lud, 1998
• Member of the British Academy, 2002
• Anders Retzius Gold Medal of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography, 2003
• Honorary doctor ( D.Sc. ), University of Edinburgh, 2006
• Honorary doctor ( Litt. D. ) of the National University of Ireland, 2006
• Honorary doctor ( Litt. D. ), University of Glasgow, 2009
• Honorary doctor ( D.Sc. ) from Queen Mary, University of London, 2010
• Honorary doctor of Charokopio University, 2012
• Honorary doctor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty of the University of Zurich, 2013

Writings (selection )

• Doreen Massey: Space, place, and gender. Blackwell, 1994, ISBN 978-0745612362
• Doreen Massey: For Space. Sage, 2005, ISBN 978-1412903622
• Doreen Massey: World City. John Wiley & Sons, 2007, ISBN 978-0745640600

Further Reading

• Doreen B. Massey: Power- geometries and the politics of space -time. Hettner Lecture 1998 ( = Hettner Lectures. Volume 2). Self- publishing of Geogr Inst, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 351508407X.
• Felicity Callard: Doreen Massey. In: Phil Hubbard and Rob Kitchin (ed.): Key thinkers on space and place. 2 edition. Sage, Los Angeles et al 2010, ISBN 978-1849201025, pp. 299-306.
• Sarah Ruth Sippel: Doreen Massey (1944 ). In: Ulf Engel, Matthias Middell (ed.): theorists of globalization. Univ.verlag Leipzig, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3865834591, pp. 341-354.
• David Featherstone, Joe Painter (ed.): Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey. Wiley, Chicester 2012, ISBN 978-1-4443-3831-7.