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SUMMARY:Spatial Justice
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DESCRIPTION:Stéphanie Vincent\, Emmanuel Ravalet\nJustice is a sensitive 
 notion that aims to reconcile two contradictory options: equality and free
 dom. Since Aristotle\, many authors\, including Hobbes\, Locke and then Ro
 usseau\, have been confronted with this contradiction\, not quite successf
 ully. The notion of social contract has nevertheless lastingly introduced 
 the thought of a social condition of being-there-together\, laying the fou
 ndations of a fundamental problem which opposes justice to the state of na
 ture.

\nJohn Rawls\, Amartya Sen\, Axel Honneth\, Nancy Fraser or Mic
 hael Walzer have largely contributed to the contemporary evolution of this
  reflection with\, respectively\, the notions of equity\, capability\, rec
 ognition\, abnormal justice and spheres of justice. This revival has not o
 nly permitted to question the notion of equality (by justifying\, for inst
 ance\, inequalities) [Rawls]\, but also that of justice\, giving more spac
 e to pluralism and emancipating the notion of equality from utilitarianism
 . To the redistribution of primary goods was added the consideration of th
 e individual capacity to mobilise these goods [Sen]\, to redistribution wa
 s added recognition [Honneth] and representation [Fraser]\, and the notion
  of justice itself has been divided according to the considered problems (
 membership\, health\, security\, education\, etc.) [Walzer] or according t
 o the principles of organisation of society [Boltanski and Thévenot].

 
\nJustice is not the result of a single norm\, but of norms and evaluat
 ive registers\, sometimes contradictory\, which meet at the moment of a co
 nflictual action. In this perspective\, justice has become reflective\, bu
 t also more elusive\, because its application can not be entirely legitima
 te\, 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 embedde
 d in this debate\, without really distinguishing itself from it. When prop
 osing the right to the city in 1968\, Henri Lefébvre has made the “urba
 n” a good whose qualities entail the means of its own distribution. Sinc
 e then\, with David Harvey\, Edward Soja or Susan Fainstein\, an array of 
 research has been conducted\, essentially about the city.\nThis seminar in
 tends to account for the richness of these studies on spatial justice whil
 e discussing its pertinence\, coherence and weaknesses. Special attention 
 will be paid to the valorisation of space as a pertinent dimension of just
 ice\, 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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