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Geographies of Power
A Lecture on Venezuela by Doreen Massey
Simón Bolívar Hall
54 Grafton Way
London
WIT 5DL
Tuesday 27th October 2009,
7-30pm - 9.00pm
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.