Demands for justice and addressing socio-spatial and environmental injustices in the Global South

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

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

Southern countries 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 concepts of socio-spatial and environmental justice in research aimed at describing them 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 the conference is to confront these concepts with the specific social relations between the state and citizens in different contexts in the Global South.

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