8/10/2019 Llmado a Congreso Sobre Justicia Espacial

1/2

Networked regions and cities in times of fragmentation:

Developing smart, sustainable and inclusive placesSunday 13thWednesday 16th May 2012:

Delft University Technology, Delft, Netherlands(Excursion, walking tour and evening drinks reception Sunday 13th May)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Register here

spatial justice and urban/regional development

D1Session Organisers:

Vasilis Avdikos (v.avdikos@gmail.com),

Gordon Dabinett (G.E.Dabinett@sheffield.ac.uk)

Thilo Lang (T_Lang@IfL-Leipzig.de)

More recent literature on spatial justice takes collective senses of injustice as a starting point for

research around topics of social justice related to space. Social, environmental, economic and

political injustices always have a temporal and spatial aspect; they happen in and across space in aparticular temporal context. From environmental segregation, to the gerrymandering of electoral

districts and the creation of economic inequalities in different spatial scales, the concept of spatial

justice has gradually become the focus of many studies, especially during the last decade. Further

interest on questions of spatial justice arises in the context of recent civil rights movements such as

the right to the city movement or the 99%-initiatives.

This session seeks to unpack the ways that spatial justice is perceived, produced and documented in

the processes of urban and regional development and, furthermore, how these processes relate

with community action and participation, grassroots initiatives and civil rights movements. Although

the concept of spatial justice has been implemented in the literature of economic development, wecan hardly find studies that deal with the issue of justice/injustice in the fields of regional and local

development in the European Union. One of the main questions that this session puts forward asks

whether new national and EU urban and regional policies (social and cohesion policy, economic

development promotion, territorial policy, sustainability etc.) have secured just processes of spatial

development or rather the opposite. Other questions could deal with concepts of justice/injustice in

urban regeneration practices, related to concepts of polycentricity and multi-level governance,

peripherality and rurality or the relations between the urban and the rural.

Potential presentations from geographers, planners, economists, sociologists should deal with

recent empirical work on questions of spatial justice resp. public senses and articulations of injusticein relation to space. Papers possibly find their theoretical background in ideas of the Just City

(Fainstein), The Right to the City (Lefebvre), Zombie Neoliberalism (Jamie Peck), Social justice and

http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/events/2012/May-Delft/http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/events/2012/May-Delft/http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/events/2012/May-Delft/

8/10/2019 Llmado a Congreso Sobre Justicia Espacial

2/2

the City (David Harvey) or Spatial Justice and the City (Peter Marcuse). We in particular invite new

formats of presentation and discussion.

Anyone interested in participating in the session should register for the conference before

10th

February 2012 by visitingwww.regionalstudies.org,and follow the link.

http://www.regionalstudies.org/http://www.regionalstudies.org/http://www.regionalstudies.org/http://www.regionalstudies.org/