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SUMMARY:Spatial Justice
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DESCRIPTION:Philippe Gervais-Lambony\nJustice is a sensitive notion that a
 ims to reconcile two contradictory options: equality and freedom. Since Ar
 istotle\, many authors\, including Hobbes\, Locke and then Rousseau\, have
  been confronted with this contradiction\, not quite successfully. The not
 ion of social contract has nevertheless lastingly introduced the thought o
 f a social condition of being-there-together\, laying the foundations of a
  fundamental problem which opposes justice to the state of nature.

\n
 John Rawls\, Amartya Sen\, Axel Honneth\, Nancy Fraser or Michael Walzer h
 ave largely contributed to the contemporary evolution of this reflection w
 ith\, respectively\, the notions of equity\, capability\, recognition\, ab
 normal justice and spheres of justice. This revival has not only permitted
  to question the notion of equality (by justifying\, for instance\, inequa
 lities) [Rawls]\, but also that of justice\, giving more space to pluralis
 m and emancipating the notion of equality from utilitarianism. To the redi
 stribution of primary goods was added the consideration of the individual 
 capacity to mobilise these goods [Sen]\, to redistribution was added recog
 nition [Honneth] and representation [Fraser]\, and the notion of justice i
 tself has been divided according to the considered problems (membership\, 
 health\, security\, education\, etc.) [Walzer] or according to the princip
 les of organisation of society [Boltanski and Thévenot].

\nJustice i
 s not the result of a single norm\, but of norms and evaluative registers\
 , sometimes contradictory\, which meet at the moment of a conflictual acti
 on. In this perspective\, justice has become reflective\, but also more el
 usive\, because its application can not be entirely legitimate\, and it ca
 n no longer pretend to be so in the name of universalism.

\nThe trans
 position to space of the concept of justice is fully embedded in this deba
 te\, without really distinguishing itself from it. When proposing the righ
 t to the city in 1968\, Henri Lefébvre has made the “urban” a good wh
 ose qualities entail the means of its own distribution. Since then\, with 
 David Harvey\, Edward Soja or Susan Fainstein\, an array of research has b
 een conducted\, essentially about the city.\nThis seminar intends to accou
 nt for the richness of these studies on spatial justice while discussing i
 ts pertinence\, coherence and weaknesses. Special attention will be paid t
 o the valorisation of space as a pertinent dimension of justice\, while av
 oiding the aporia of a spatialism that would strip the very notion of just
 ice of all of its heuristic strength.
LOCATION:INM 203 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=INM+203
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