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SUMMARY:Spatial Justice
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DESCRIPTION:20 février 2013 : Ana Povoas et Jean-Nicolas Fauchille\n6 mar
 s 2013 : Jacques Lévy\n20  mars 2013 : Mustafa Dikeç\n10 avril 2013 : P
 hilippe Gervais-Lambony\n24 avril 2013 : Stéphanie Vincent et Emmanuel Ra
 valet\n8 mai 2013 : Laurent Matthey et Yves Bonard\nSpatial Justice\nJusti
 ce is a sensitive notion that aims to reconcile two contradictory options:
  equality and freedom. Since Aristotle\, many authors\, including Hobbes\,
  Locke and then Rousseau\, have been confronted with this contradiction\, 
 not quite successfully. The notion of social contract has nevertheless las
 tingly introduced the thought of a social condition of being-there-togethe
 r\, laying the foundations of a fundamental problem which opposes justice 
 to the state of nature.

\nJohn Rawls\, Amartya Sen\, Axel Honneth\, N
 ancy Fraser or Michael Walzer have largely contributed to the contemporary
  evolution of this reflection with\, respectively\, the notions of equity\
 , capability\, recognition\, abnormal justice and spheres of justice. This
  revival has not only permitted to question the notion of equality (by jus
 tifying\, for instance\, inequalities) [Rawls]\, but also that of justice\
 , giving more space to pluralism and emancipating the notion of equality f
 rom utilitarianism. To the redistribution of primary goods was added the c
 onsideration of the individual capacity to mobilise these goods [Sen]\, to
  redistribution was added recognition [Honneth] and representation [Fraser
 ]\, and the notion of justice itself has been divided according to the con
 sidered problems (membership\, health\, security\, education\, etc.) [Walz
 er] or according to the principles of organisation of society [Boltanski a
 nd Thévenot].

\nJustice is not the result of a single norm\, but of 
 norms and evaluative registers\, sometimes contradictory\, which meet at t
 he moment of a conflictual action. In this perspective\, justice has becom
 e reflective\, but also more elusive\, because its application can not be 
 entirely legitimate\, and it can no longer pretend to be so in the name of
  universalism.

\nThe transposition to space of the concept of justice
  is fully embedded in this debate\, without really distinguishing itself f
 rom it. When proposing the right to the city in 1968\, Henri Lefébvre has
  made the “urban” a good whose qualities entail the means of its own d
 istribution. Since then\, with David Harvey\, Edward Soja or Susan Fainste
 in\, an array of research has been conducted\, essentially about the city.
 \nThis seminar intends to account for the richness of these studies on spa
 tial justice while discussing its pertinence\, coherence and weaknesses. S
 pecial attention will be paid to the valorisation of space as a pertinent 
 dimension of justice\, while avoiding the aporia of a spatialism that woul
 d strip the very notion of justice of all of its heuristic strength.
LOCATION:INM 203 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=INM+203
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