Power Geometry, according to Doreen Massey

Doreen Massey (geographer)

Doreen Barbara Massey FRSA FBA AcSS , is a contemporary British social scientist and geographer, working among others on topics typical of marxist geography...

, is how the time-space compression

Time-space compression

Time-space compression is a term used to describe processes that seem to accelerate the experience of time and reduce the significance of distance during a given historical moment. Geographer David Harvey used the term in The Condition of Postmodernity, where it refers to "processes that . ....

of 'globalization' affects people differently. Therefore a wholesale embracing or rejection of the processes linked with globalization fails to recognize what she has termed 'power-geometry'.

Note

Massey, D. (1993) 'Power-geometry and a progressive sense of place', in
J. Bird, B. Curtis, T. Putnam, G. Robertson and L. Tickner (eds) Mapping the Futures: Local Cultures, Global Change, London: Routledge, pp. 59–69.