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Social Justice Revisited

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  • David M Smith

    (Department of Geography, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, London E1 4NS, England)

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The author takes as his point of departure David Harvey's original formulation of territorial social justice and recognises the subsequent emergence of a politics of difference as central to the discourse of justice. The contemporary preoccupation with difference is problematised. The argument proceeds from recognition of morally significant aspects of human sameness, through the identification of human needs and the case for associated rights, to an egalitarian conception of social justice. The Earths uneven resource endowment, a traditional disciplinary preoccupation, is viewed as morally arbitrary and hence an aspect of difference to be transcended. The paper concludes with some observations on moral motivation, asking why we should actively endorse social justice.

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  • David M Smith, 2000. "Social Justice Revisited," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 32(7), pages 1149-1162, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:32:y:2000:i:7:p:1149-1162
    DOI: 10.1068/a3258
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    1. Masni Mat Dong & Peter Midmore & Maria Plotnikova, 2022. "Understanding the experiences of Indigenous minorities through the lens of spatial justice: The case of Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 14(5), pages 1223-1239, October.
    2. Marián Halás & Pavel Klapka & Vladimír Bačík & Michal Klobučník, 2017. "The spatial equity principle in the administrative division of the Central European countries," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(11), pages 1-18, November.
    3. Ernest Uwayezu & Walter T. De Vries, 2018. "Indicators for Measuring Spatial Justice and Land Tenure Security for Poor and Low Income Urban Dwellers," Land, MDPI, vol. 7(3), pages 1-34, July.
    4. Paul Routledge, 2010. "Introduction: Cities, Justice and Conflict," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 47(6), pages 1165-1177, May.

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