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This collection of Doreen Massey's writings brings together for the first time her formative contributions, showcasing the continuing relevance of her ideas to current debates. With introductions and explanatory notes from the editors, the collection provides an unrivalled introduction to the range and depth of Massey's work.

For Vincent Massey, youth was a period of protest and emerging public fame. He broke with his strong family traditions of Methodist piety and American ties. He became known as a patron of the arts, innovator, politician, and diplomat.This volume begins with his prosperous Victorian childhood and carries through days as a student and wartime officer. He plans Hart House, which becomes a cultural centre. Promised a cabinet post, he runs for Parliament and is defeated. Instead, he is sent to Washington as Canada's first minister there, and achieves brilliant success. He is prominent in educational circles; he helps to reorganize the Liberal party, presses for progressive policies, and flirts with the idea of replacing Mackenzie King.The book ends in 1935 as he sails to London as his country's high commissioner. He considers it his first major job. In between he writes poetry—usually light, sometimes venom-tipped. He acts, and directs plays. He sponsors a string quartet of international stature. He marries Alice Parkin, a handsome woman of strong convictions, and with her builds a country home near Port Hope, Ontario. He becomes a leading collector of modern Canadian art, and is involved with the painter David Milne. The book is as well a history of the people and ideas which influenced the young Massey—family, teachers, friends, associates. One chapter is given to his relations with Mackenzie King—each of them convinced of his own rightness but separated by fundamental differences, loud in protestations of friendship but nourishing an inner contempt for one another.Claude Bissell has built this complex and absorbing portrait from the unpublished papers of Vincent Massey and members of his circle, diaries of King and other politicians, memories of artists and musicians.He writes with vigour and elegance, quoting extensively from private records and letters, coining epigrams of his own. His portrait is sympathe

Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1 Out Of Place: Doreen Massey, Radical Geographer -- Out of Manchester -- Industrial Dislocations -- Locality Effects -- A view from somewhere -- Articulating difference -- Relational Space -- Locating Responsibility -- The Book Ahead -- References -- Part I Contexts -- Chapter 2 North and south -- Two places -- Place matters: growing up in the northwest -- Growing up in the fifties -- The life of "clever girls" -- Moving across borders: Oxford in the early 1960s -- A life in London -- References -- Chapter 3 Her dark past -- Introduction -- Early life (1944-68) -- The Centre for Environmental Studies -- 1968 and all that: Doreen Massey at CES -- The Philadelphia story -- All change: mind the gap -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Trainspotting in Bethlehem -- London, 1966-69: introductions -- London, 1969-71: preparations -- Philadelphia, 1971-72: regional science at Penn -- Aftermath: 1972-2014 -- Kilburn: 18 May 2014 -- References -- Chapter 5 Becoming a geographer -- Moments of convergence -- Moments of divergence -- References -- Chapter 6 Why did space matter to Doreen Massey? -- Experiences of mobility -- The new geography -- Space and time -- Philosophical realism, objects and categories -- References -- Chapter 7 Ontology and the politics of space -- References -- Chapter 8 Doreen matters -- Geography matters -- A relational view of space -- Beyond the purely academic -- References -- Chapter 9 Just carry on being different -- Place, difference and debate -- Stretched-out social relations -- Just carry on being different -- References -- Part II Conjunctures -- Chapter 10 From "the" North to "the" South -- Introduction -- Place, space and politics -- Context and conjuncture.

Introduction: "there is no point of departure": the many trajectories of Doreen Massey / David Featherstone and Joe Painter -- Space, hegemony and radical critique / Chantal Mouffe -- Theorizing context / Lawrence Grossberg -- Power-geometry as philosophy of space / Arun Saldanha -- Spatial relations and human relations / Michael Rustin -- Space, democracy and difference: for a post-colonial perspective / David Slater -- Spatial divisions and regional assemblages / Allan Cochrane -- Making space for labour / Jamie Peck -- The political challenge of relational territory / Elena dell'Agnese -- Interlude: you're gravitational now / Olafur Eliasson -- Place and politics / Jane Wills -- A global sense of place and multiterritoriality: notes for dialogue from a "peripheral" point of view / Rogério Haesbaert -- Massey muse / Wendy Harcourt [and others] -- Physical sense of world / Steve Hinchliffe -- Working with Doreen downunder: antipodean trajectories / Sophie Bond and Sara Kindon -- Doreen Massey: the light dances on the water / Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift -- Place, space, and solidarity in global justice networks / Andrew Cumbers and Paul Routledge -- The socialist transformation of Venezuela: the geographical dimension as a raison d'être and strategy / Ricardo Menéndez -- Place beyond place and the politics of "empowerment" / Hilary Wainwright

Aristocrat, democrat, diplomat, cultural advocate, anglophile, fiercely proud Canadian—Vincent Massey was a complex, sometimes enigmatic figure. This finely crafted portrait of Massey's middle and later years, drawn extensively from its subject's diaries and papers, recalls a life of deep commitment to the service of his country and its culture.From 1935 to 1946 he served as Canada's high commissioner to London, a role for which he was perfectly suited: his love of English traditions and values was exceeded only by his intense Canadian patriotism. He served well. The courage and generosity of Vincent and Alice Massey made them favourites with Canadian servicemen in Britain during the war years. His familiarity with, and enthusiasm for, all royal ritual was invaluable to the Canadian delegations during the ceremonies surrounding the coronation of George VI. His proud representation of Canada's cultural accomplishments opened British doors to many Canadian artists.The years in London were happy ones for Massey, at home as he was in the country life of the English upper classes. They were followed by a period of frustration. Mackenzie King was minister of external affairs as well as prime minister during Massey's stint as high commissioner, and was therefore Massey's immediate superior. Relations between the two were never very warm—Mackenzie King considered Massey a snob with dangerous ambitions—and when Massey returned to Canada contemplating a political position, possibly a cabinet post, his path was completely blocked.For a time Massey returned to the academic environment he so enjoyed, as chancellor of the University of Toronto. But two of his greatest achievements were still to come. One was the establishment of the royal commission on culture, which bore his name and led ultimately to the creation of the Canada Council. The other was his appointment as governor-general, the first Canad