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Justice and Injustice in the City
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2006, “Global social justice and
environmental sustainability”, 30th August - 1st September 2006.
The recent series of riots in French suburbs and the social impact of hurricane
Katrina in New Orleans have once again put the issue of urban injustices on the
agenda. These events make clear that many of the principal injustices of our
time materialize, mature, and are governed in cities. Cities and national
governments have increasingly prioritised penal forms of intervention over
economic and social ones to address growing urban injustices. However, such
efforts are continuously challenged through disturbances such as riots and more
organized efforts such as urban social movements. These actors not only
challenge how injustices are managed by political systems, but also, they
challenge hegemonic understandings of what constitute just and unjust
societies.
This session aims to explore the geographies of (in)justice in contemporary
urban worlds by addressing the following questions:
- How do public policies produce or contribute to urban injustices?
- What role does space play in the production and persistence of urban
injustices?
- What are the everyday ways in which urban residents experience injustices?
- What strategies do people pursue to contend with urban injustices?
- What are the common forms for resistance to urban injustices (passive-active,
individual, riots, movements, etc.)?
- What are the effects of different forms of resistance on the systems that
produce and manage injustices?
Convenors:
Mustafa Dikeç, Department of Geography, The Open University, United Kingdom
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Walter Nicholls, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London,
United Kingdom ([log in to unmask])
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to both convenors by no later
than 20th January 2006.
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