Doreen Massey：世界真的變小了嗎？

偶然看到英國地理學家Doreen Massey2006年的一場演講（逐字稿）。講題是從「世界是否變小了？地理學是否終結了？」這個因為全球化而常見的疑問出發，一路談到「為何空間仍舊重要？」、「為何地方（place）仍須討論？」

隨手記下幾個感興趣的論點：

• Physical proximity is not necessarily a good measure of social and cultural distance.
• So, no, actually: the materialities of place, and the differences between places, matter hugely to the promoters of the virtual world
• Geography is being turned into history, space is being turned into time.
• Maybe we need to re-think the “identity of place", not only away from its being a claim to exclusive ownership,but also towards its also being a recognition of responsibility - the responsibility of place – within and towards those wider geographies.

對Maseey關於「地方」的討論有興趣的朋友，或許可以看看〈A Global Sense of Place〉這篇文章。