Category Archives: Place

Space of Flows

Castells, Manuel. 1996. The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell. [Ch 6] Considering the historical moment it speaks to, this was a not surprisingly influential book, particularly in terms of the conceptual vocabulary it developed: network society, megacities, metropolitan … Continue reading

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Space, Place, and Gender

Massey, Doreen. 1994. Space, Place, and Gender. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press. Massey is trying to formulate concepts of space and place (time, too) in terms of social relations, and further to connect these in proper dialectical fashion. “Space must be … Continue reading

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