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Doreen Massey
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Born
Doreen Barbara Massey

3 January 1944
Manchester, England, UK
Died March 11, 2016(2016-03-11) (aged 72)
Citizenship British
Alma mater University of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
Awards Victoria Medal (1994)
Prix Vautrin Lud (1998)
Scientific career
Fields Economic and Social geography

Doreen Barbara Massey FRSA FBA FAcSS (3 January 1944 – 11 March 2016) was a British social scientist and geographer. She was working among others on topics involving Marxist geography, feminist geography, and cultural geography. Her work on space, place and power has been highly helpful within a range of related disciplines and research fields. She served as Emeritus Professor of Geography at the Open University.

Massey died on 11 March 2016 from pancreatic cancer. She was aged 72.

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