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SUMMARY:Spatial Justice
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DESCRIPTION:Ana Povoas\, Jean-Nicolas Fauchille\nJustice is a sensitive no
 tion that aims to reconcile two contradictory options: equality and freedo
 m. Since Aristotle\, many authors\, including Hobbes\, Locke and then Rous
 seau\, have been confronted with this contradiction\, not quite successful
 ly. The notion of social contract has nevertheless lastingly introduced th
 e thought of a social condition of being-there-together\, laying the found
 ations of a fundamental problem which opposes justice to the state of natu
 re.

\nJohn Rawls\, Amartya Sen\, Axel Honneth\, Nancy Fraser or Micha
 el Walzer have largely contributed to the contemporary evolution of this r
 eflection with\, respectively\, the notions of equity\, capability\, recog
 nition\, abnormal justice and spheres of justice. This revival has not onl
 y permitted to question the notion of equality (by justifying\, for instan
 ce\, inequalities) [Rawls]\, but also that of justice\, giving more space 
 to pluralism and emancipating the notion of equality from utilitarianism. 
 To the redistribution of primary goods was added the consideration of the 
 individual capacity to mobilise these goods [Sen]\, to redistribution was 
 added recognition [Honneth] and representation [Fraser]\, and the notion o
 f justice itself has been divided according to the considered problems (me
 mbership\, health\, security\, education\, etc.) [Walzer] or according to 
 the principles of organisation of society [Boltanski and Thévenot].


 \nJustice is not the result of a single norm\, but of norms and evaluative
  registers\, sometimes contradictory\, which meet at the moment of a confl
 ictual action. In this perspective\, justice has become reflective\, but a
 lso 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 i
 n this debate\, without really distinguishing itself from it. When proposi
 ng the right to the city in 1968\, Henri Lefébvre has made the “urban
 ” a good whose qualities entail the means of its own distribution. Since
  then\, with David Harvey\, Edward Soja or Susan Fainstein\, an array of r
 esearch has been conducted\, essentially about the city.\nThis seminar int
 ends to account for the richness of these studies on spatial justice while
  discussing its pertinence\, coherence and weaknesses. Special attention w
 ill be paid to the valorisation of space as a pertinent dimension of justi
 ce\, while avoiding the aporia of a spatialism that would strip the very n
 otion of justice of all of its heuristic strength.
LOCATION:INM 203 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=INM+203
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