Calls for Justice and Addressing Socio-Spatial and Environmental Injustices in the Global South

April 24: MSH SUD, St. Charles 2 Campus – 71 rue du Professeur Henri Serre, Montpellier; hours: 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

April 25 and 26: Human Resources Auditorium – 5 Boulevard Henri IV, Montpellier; hours: 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Countries of the Global South are experiencing severe processes of land exclusion and exposure to environmental risks, often linked to particularly brutal extractivist practices. In response to these situations, there is a growing use of the concepts of socio-spatial and environmental justice in research aimed at describing these situations and analyzing the various forms of resistance or protest they provoke. However, these concepts are implicitly or explicitly based on theories of the state and citizenship that are assumed to be universal. The aim of this conference is to examine these concepts in light of the specific social relationships between the state and citizens in various contexts across the Global South.

Organized by: UMR-SENS and the Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions. Supported by the Pôle foncier Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, MSH-Sud, FIAS, Agropolis, and the University of Toronto.