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SUMMARY:Spatial Justice
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DESCRIPTION:Laurent Matthey\, Yves Bonard\nJustice is a sensitive notion t
 hat aims to reconcile two contradictory options: equality and freedom. Sin
 ce Aristotle\, many authors\, including Hobbes\, Locke and then Rousseau\,
  have been confronted with this contradiction\, not quite successfully. Th
 e notion of social contract has nevertheless lastingly introduced the thou
 ght of a social condition of being-there-together\, laying the foundations
  of a fundamental problem which opposes justice to the state of nature.

 
\nJohn Rawls\, Amartya Sen\, Axel Honneth\, Nancy Fraser or Michael Wal
 zer have largely contributed to the contemporary evolution of this reflect
 ion with\, respectively\, the notions of equity\, capability\, recognition
 \, abnormal justice and spheres of justice. This revival has not only perm
 itted to question the notion of equality (by justifying\, for instance\, i
 nequalities) [Rawls]\, but also that of justice\, giving more space to plu
 ralism and emancipating the notion of equality from utilitarianism. To the
  redistribution of primary goods was added the consideration of the indivi
 dual capacity to mobilise these goods [Sen]\, to redistribution was added 
 recognition [Honneth] and representation [Fraser]\, and the notion of just
 ice itself has been divided according to the considered problems (membersh
 ip\, health\, security\, education\, etc.) [Walzer] or according to the pr
 inciples of organisation of society [Boltanski and Thévenot].

\nJust
 ice is not the result of a single norm\, but of norms and evaluative regis
 ters\, sometimes contradictory\, which meet at the moment of a conflictual
  action. In this perspective\, justice has become reflective\, but also mo
 re 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 from it. When proposing the
  right to the city in 1968\, Henri Lefébvre has made the “urban” a go
 od whose qualities entail the means of its own distribution. Since then\, 
 with David Harvey\, Edward Soja or Susan Fainstein\, an array of research 
 has been conducted\, essentially about the city.\nThis seminar intends to 
 account for the richness of these studies on spatial justice while discuss
 ing its pertinence\, coherence and weaknesses. Special attention will be p
 aid to the valorisation of space as a pertinent dimension of justice\, whi
 le 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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