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Dear all,

Please find information below about an event in London might be of interest
for some.

Thanks, Uli




*Geographies of Power*

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A Lecture on Venezuela by Doreen Massey

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*Simón Bolívar Hall*

*54 Grafton Way***

*London***

*WIT 5DL*



*Tuesday 27th October 2009, *

*7-30pm - 9.00pm*

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*        *Venezuela is experimenting with new forms of democracy.  It aims
to

          address the balance between the dominant coastal cities and the
rest

          of the country.  And it is inventing new structures of
participatory

          democracy to parallel those of the representative democracy of the
state.

          In other words, it has taken seriously the important relation
between

          power and space.  And in doing so, it has drawn on a concept of

          Doreen Massey’s:  ‘power geometry’.  The fourth motor of the

          revolution, as set out in 2007, is the need to build ‘una nueva
geometría

          del poder’.



          In this talk, Doreen Massey reflects on this relation between
geography

          and power, on the Venezuelan experiment, and on the use of the
idea of

          geometries of power in building a more democratic society.



          In co-ordination with the Cultural  Section of the Venezuelan
Embassy.