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SUMMARY:Spatial Justice
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DESCRIPTION:Jacques Lévy\nSpatial Justice\nJustice is a sensitive notion 
 that aims to reconcile two contradictory options: equality and freedom. Si
 nce Aristotle\, many authors\, including Hobbes\, Locke and then Rousseau\
 , have been confronted with this contradiction\, not quite successfully. T
 he notion of social contract has nevertheless lastingly introduced the tho
 ught of a social condition of being-there-together\, laying the foundation
 s of a fundamental problem which opposes justice to the state of nature.
 

\nJohn Rawls\, Amartya Sen\, Axel Honneth\, Nancy Fraser or Michael 
 Walzer have largely contributed to the contemporary evolution of this refl
 ection with\, respectively\, the notions of equity\, capability\, recognit
 ion\, abnormal justice and spheres of justice. This revival has not only p
 ermitted to question the notion of equality (by justifying\, for instance\
 , 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 ind
 ividual capacity to mobilise these goods [Sen]\, to redistribution was add
 ed recognition [Honneth] and representation [Fraser]\, and the notion of j
 ustice itself has been divided according to the considered problems (membe
 rship\, health\, security\, education\, etc.) [Walzer] or according to the
  principles of organisation of society [Boltanski and Thévenot].

\nJ
 ustice is not the result of a single norm\, but of norms and evaluative re
 gisters\, sometimes contradictory\, which meet at the moment of a conflict
 ual action. In this perspective\, justice has become reflective\, but also
  more elusive\, because its application can not be entirely legitimate\, a
 nd it can no longer pretend to be so in the name of universalism.

\nT
 he transposition to space of the concept of justice is fully embedded in t
 his debate\, without really distinguishing itself from 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 distribution. Since then
 \, with David Harvey\, Edward Soja or Susan Fainstein\, an array of resear
 ch has been conducted\, essentially about the city.\nThis seminar intends 
 to account for the richness of these studies on spatial justice while disc
 ussing its pertinence\, coherence and weaknesses. Special attention will b
 e paid to the valorisation of space as a pertinent dimension of justice\, 
 while avoiding the aporia of a spatialism that would 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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