Doreen Massey, socialist feminist, engaged geographer and influential public intellectual has died, during the night of March 11th, aged 72. Tributes are pouring in through social media. 'Now we understand what everyone else felt about David Bowie', was one attempt to convey the scale of our loss. Doreen's body could sometimes be frail but her mind was brilliant and tough. As a character she was strong, passionate, curious and also imbued with modesty and kindness. She radiated political energy and humanity, sparkling with a cheeky wit.
With a steady flow of books, such as For Space, The anatomy of job loss, and Space, Place and Gender and contributions to the books of others such as Huw Beynon's Digging Deeper, a collection on the politics of the 1984/85 miners strike, she worked alongside others such as David Harvey, to establish geography as the intellectual source of a powerful, integrated critique of predatory capitalism in the age of climate change and the corporate driven global market.
