Wednesday 4 November 2009, 18.30–20.00

The question of space is central to understanding cultural difference in globalisation. In this lecture Doreen Massey, an eminent geographer and writer on the socio-political significance of space, challenges some current thinking about space and difference. She argues we may have become complacent in our constant tropes of the inevitable hybridity of places, and in the manner of our elevation of ‘the migrant’ as the iconic figure of our time, and asks if the very notion of place can be reworked to have progressive meaning in a globalised world. Is it time to re-imagine the geographies of difference?

Tate Britain  Auditorium and Clore Gallery Foyer
£7 (£5 concessions), booking recommended
Price includes drinks afterwards

    

Doreen Massey is one of the pre-eminent geographers of her generation publishing many classic texts in the field of studies about space and place including Space, Place and Gender (1994) and For Space (2005).
She was awarded the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Socity in 1994 and in 1998 she won the Prix Vautrin Lud (the ‘Nobel de Géographie’). Throughout her career Doreen has also engaged actively in the world beyond the academy. She is co-founder and co-editor of Soundings: a journal of politics and culture, and presents and writes regularly in mainstream media on issues relating to globalisation, cities, regional inequality and the socio-political significance of geography, space and place. She is Professor of Geography at The Open University.