This call for papers intends to critically question the links between local autonomy and spatial justice in the context of territorial development policies that aim to strengthen the room for manoeuvre conferred on the local. In particular, this call invites contributions presenting concrete examples of application of or resistance to these policies. The envisaged policies and programmes are, in particular, those set up since 2000 by large international, supra-regional and / or national organisations targeting peripheral, semi-peripheral (but also their inner peripheries) territories and / or for the benefit of minorities.
In this broad context, this call for papers specifically addresses three questions: How does the local grasp these recent territorial development policies? In particular, do these policies support a more equitable spatial distribution of wealth and opportunities? What initiatives, what checks are carried out at the organisational and procedural levels, in the proposed « democratic renewal »? Beyond the effects in terms of procedural and distributive justice in the targeted territory, what does local empowerment produce at different levels and between them?
CfP: https://www.jssj.org/appel-a-contributions/
Coordination: Cyril Blondel and Estelle Evrard, University of Luxembourg