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Module SPATIAL JUSTICE: GEOGRAPHIES OF SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

Module code: GY629
Credits: 10
Semester: 2
Department: GEOGRAPHY
International: No
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This module will critically explore the theories of spatial justice, and social change, alongside mechanisms for achieving and resisting these. It will develop understandings of the spatialities of social change and justice, examining possibilities, limits and utopian visions of social progress. Conceptual engagements will be developed through practical examples led by the students, such as the water protests, climate action camps, occupy movements and women’s separatist spaces. The common conceptualisation of progressive social change and social justice produced through working against known enemies and repressive hegemonic forces will be brought into question in through investigating contemporary resistances to immigration, LGBT rights and women’s rights.
Students will investigate how spatial justice and social change are conceptualised, manifest, fail and are resisted with a focus on power and social difference. The module will investigate and explore policy changes as well as community and voluntary work situating these within diverse spatialities of social and political difference. Spatialities attended to will include, protest marches and camps, online spaces, transnational creations of social differences, national government spaces, as well as local actions. The relationships between geographical knowledge and the materialities and practices of activism will be examined.

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