Spatial justice from Latin America: approaches, questions and expansions

Abstract

The spatial turn of the Social Sciences led to reevaluate from a spatial perspective some of the great debates in the Humanities, such as political economy or justice. In this way, the study of spatial justice arises both from the recovery of the explanatory capacity of space and from the opening of justice to other fields. This dossier proposes to address the discussion of spatial justice in and from Latin America and is an opportunity to publicize Latin American contributions to the study of spatial justice. So, Justice and space and territory are interwoven in the articles. Specifically, they work on 4 major themes: environmental injustice, depicted by the sacrifice zones; the imaginary dimension, through historical-spatial identities or the unequal and pejorative production of otherness; the urban dispute, through the socio-spatial contradictions of urbanization and the different types of urban planning; and decolonization, through the epistemic clarification of what lies behind concepts such as territorial justice and illuminating the multiple injustices experienced by indigenous peoples.