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Module SPATIAL JUSTICE

Module code: GY239
Credits: 5
Semester: 2
Quota: 140
Department: GEOGRAPHY
International: Yes
Coordinator: Prof. Karen Till (GEOGRAPHY)
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This module examines human geographical understandings of justice according to key concepts in geography, including space, place, landscape, environment and scale in the age of the capitalocene. Human geographers critically and self-reflexively examines how regimes of power work in everyday life at different moments in time and space, according to power geometries, varying environmental and cultural circumstances, and social axes of difference. Students will learn about underlying spatial structural processes and geographical imaginations leading to social and environmental injustice, including through colonialism, capitalism, racism, patriarchy, among others. Using a range of case studies from around the world, students will be exposed to approaches to decolonisation; the possibilities and limitations of rights-based approaches; and to debates about procedural, distributional, social, spatial, place-based, land, and environmental justice. They will be introduced to the relationships between geographical knowledges, the practices and material changes of activism, and the possibilities and limitations of utopian visions of progressive social and environmental change through direct action and protest, social media online spaces, transnational networks, government and NGO spaces, art, and local actions. Finally, the module will consider policy changes as well as community and voluntary work as situated within diverse spatialities of social, political and environmental difference. Students will learn about the significance of local knowledges, including through the voices of those affected by forms of injustice.

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