Doreen Massey (geographer)

Doreen Massey (2012)

Doreen Barbara Massey (born January 3, 1944 in Manchester , England - † March 11, 2016 ) was a British geographer and social scientist . Until her death she was Professor Emeritus of Geography at the Open University in Milton Keynes .

Life

After earning a bachelor's degree in geography from the University of Oxford , Massey initially did not pursue a university career path, but worked at the government- affiliated Think Tank Center for Environmental Studies until its closure in 1980 . In 1972 she obtained a master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania , at that time the most important location for regional scientific research, but she did not follow the economic-mathematical approach of this in her further research. Although she never had a PhD, Massey became a professor at the Open University in 1982 , where she stayed until her retirement in 2009. Doreen Massey died in March 2016 at the age of 72.

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Massey is regarded as the most cited human geographer and, among other things, played a decisive role in shaping the emergence of feminist geography , the theoretical-conceptual convergence of human geography and sociology, and the debates about the emerging globalization from the late 1970s onwards.

Awards

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

Fonts (selection)

• Doreen Massey: Space, place, and gender. Blackwell, 1994, ISBN 978-0-7456-1236-2
• Doreen Massey: For Space. Sage, 2005, ISBN 978-1-4129-0362-2
• Doreen Massey: World City. John Wiley & Sons, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7456-4060-0

further reading

• Doreen B. Massey: Power-geometries and the politics of space-time . Hettner Lecture 1998 (=  Hettner Lectures . Volume 2 ). Self-published by Geogr. Inst., Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-515-08407-X .
• Felicity Callard: Doreen Massey . In: Phil Hubbard and Rob Kitchin (Eds.): Key thinkers on space and place . 2nd Edition. Sage, Los Angeles et al. a. 2010, ISBN 978-1-84920-102-5 , pp. 299-306 .
• Sarah Ruth Sippel: Doreen Massey (* 1944) . In: Ulf Engel, Matthias Middell (ed.): Theoreticians of globalization . Leipziger Univ.verlag, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-86583-459-1 , p. 341-354 .
• David Featherstone, Joe Painter (Eds.): Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey . Wiley, Chicester 2012, ISBN 978-1-4443-3831-7 .
• Roger Lee: Doreen Barbara Massey . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy . tape XVII , 2018, p. 145-178 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Doreen Massey in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of the chair (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tributes after the death of geographer and acclaimed social scientist Professor Doreen Massey
2. ↑ Olivia Edward: I'm a geographer: Doreen Massey . In: Geographical: the Royal Geographical Society magazine . Vol. 81, December 2009, ISSN  0016-741X , p. 82 ( archive.org [accessed February 10, 2013]).
3. ↑ http://classonline.org.uk/blog/item/doreen-massey-our-friend-and-colleague
4. ^ Yeung, Henry W. (2002): Deciphering citations. Environment and Planning A 34 (12): 2093-2102. The information relates to the period 1981–2002.
5. ↑ 12/11/2012 Αναγόρευση της DOREEN MASSEY σε επίτιμη Διδάκτορα Charokopio University (Greek).
6. ↑ UZH awards honorary doctorates to cultural historian Peter Burke and nine other personalities. ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. University of Zurich, April 27, 2013.