Doreen Massey’s For Space argues that space should not be imagined as a flat surface to be crossed, possessed or conquered, but as a living field of relations, multiplicity and unfinished histories. Her central intervention is to reject the idea that space is static while time is dynamic. Instead, Massey proposes that space is produced through interrelations, from intimate encounters to global networks, and is therefore always under construction. This matters politically because how we imagine space shapes how we imagine others. If space is treated as a surface, then other places and peoples can appear as passive, waiting to be discovered, modernised or incorporated into a single historical path. Massey challenges this by insisting on coevalness: different places exist at the same time, with their own trajectories, not as earlier versions of the West. Her critique of globalisation is especially important, because neoliberal discourse often turns geography into history, presenting poorer regions as merely “behind” rather than differently positioned within unequal global relations. Massey also rethinks place. Rather than seeing place as closed, pure or rooted in a fixed identity, she understands it as open, relational and contested. A place is not an isolated container of authenticity; it is made through movements, encounters, conflicts and connections that stretch beyond it. This makes space politically demanding, because it forces recognition of simultaneous difference and shared responsibility. Ultimately, For Space offers a way of thinking spatially without reducing space to stasis, territory or background. Massey’s space is relational, unfinished and alive: a simultaneity of “stories-so-far” in which politics becomes possible precisely because the future is not closed.