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In the context of increasing division and segregation in cities across the world, along with pressing concerns around austerity, environmental degradation, homelessness, violence, and refugees, this book pursues a multidisciplinary approach to spatial justice in the city.
Spatial justice has been central to urban theorists in various ways. Intimately connected to social justice, it is a term implicated in relations of power which concern the spatial distribution of resources, rights and materials. Arguably there can be no notion of social justice that is not spatial. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos has argued that spatial justice is the struggle of various bodies - human, natural, non-organic, technological - to occupy a certain space at a certain time. As such, urban planning and policy interventions are always, to some extent at least, about spatial justice. And, as cities become ever more unequal, it is crucial that urbanists address questions of spatial justice in the city. To this end, this book considers these questions from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Crossing law, sociology, history, cultural studies, and geography, the book's overarching concern with how to think spatial justice in the city brings a fresh perspective to issues that have concerned urbanists for several decades. The inclusion of empirical work in London brings the political, social, and cultural aspects of spatial justice to life.
The book will be of interest to academics and students in the field of urban studies, sociology, geography, planning, space law, and cultural studies.
List of contents
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Chapter 1 Introducing Spatial Justice Sophie Watson Open University
Chapter 2. Social Media and Spatial Justice:Instagram, Place and Recursive Logics of Exclusion in North European Cities David Herbert Kingston University and University of Agder, Norway
Chapter 3 Enacting Exclusion in Contemporary Gulf Cities Harvey Molotch (New York University) and Davide Ponzini (Politecnico di Milano)
Chapter 4 Spatial, or situational justice: A pragmatist account
Gary Bridge Cardiff University
Chapter 5 Spatial Justice and Religious Water based Practices.
Sophie Watson Open University
Chapter 6 Of Trophy and Triumph: Affective Attachments and Proprietary Feelings in Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad, 1945-1950 Olga Sezneva, University of Amsterdam
Chapter 7 Social Art Practice and Spatial Injustice: disentangling the web of arts expediency. Alison Rooke Goldsmiths University and Christian Von-Wissel School of Architecture, City University of Applied Sciences Bremen University .
Chapter 8 Fighting for the Right to the Streets: The Politics and Poetics of Protection in Women's Self-Defense Francis Dodsworth, Kingston University London
Chapter 9 Making space for waste: Fractal re-production of unsustainable environments Francisco Calafate- Faria. Goldsmiths University
Chapter 10. The inconclusive Spatial Justice Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos Westminster University.
About the author
Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University
Summary
In the context of increasing division and segregation in cities across the world, along with pressing concerns around austerity, environmental degradation, homelessness, violence, and refugees, this book pursues a multidisciplinary approach to spatial justice in the city.
