Event

Geographies of (In)justice: The challenges of researching and teaching spatial (in)justice: a Central and Eastern European perspective

  • Conférencier  Judit Timár, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)

  • Lieu

    Campus Belval, Maison des Sciences Humaines, Black Box

    11, porte des Sciences

    L-4366, Esch-sur-Alzette, LU

The seminar lecture deals with the following issues:

  • the uneven development of knowledge production from the perspective of Central and Eastern Europe (Anglo-American hegemony, injustices of
  • the publication industry);
  • the relevance of research topics such as socio-spatial marginalisation and peripheralisation;
  • the usefulness of critical theories such as uneven development and the right to the city;
  • teaching spatial (in)justice as a ‘critical’ practice of geography and a political tool in today’s Hungary.

Judit Timár currently works at the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Judit does research in Urban/Rural Geography, Feminist Geography, Science Studies.

Contact

cyril.blondel@uni.luestelle.evrard@uni.lu 

This guest lecture series is organised in partnership with the JSSJ Justice Spatiale / Spatial Justice Journal