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On Monday 29 September, 13.00, at the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson st, Dublin, The RIA and the Geographical Society of Ireland will host a lecture Professor John Mohan, Director of the Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham, UK Charity deserts, spatial justice, and the distribution of voluntary resources: bad science, evidence-free policy, and the politics of the “Big Society” The lecture examines the spatial justice aspects of the increasing reliance upon charity and voluntarism in welfare provision. You can register for the free event, here http://ria.ie/Events/Events-Listing/Charity-deserts--spatial-justice--and-the-distribu The lecture is also launching a new RIA paperback, *Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis*. The book contains essays on spatial justice in Ireland by Rory Hearne, Rob Kitchin, Cian O'Callaghan, Marie Mahon, Anna Davies, David Meredith, Jon Paul Faulkner, Des Mc Cafferty, Jon Paul Faulkner, Ronan Foley, Adrian Kavanagh, Mary Gilmartin, Gerry Kearns. The crisis is set in general context with essays by Danny Dorling and John Agnew and interview that John Morrissey conducted with David Harvey. You can order the book (€20) online, here http://www.ria.ie/Publications/Books/Spatial-Justice-and-the-Irish-Crisis Gerry Kearns -- Gerry Kearns, Professor of Human Geography, National University of Ireland Maynooth