Abstract: ABSTRACT. Throughout this paper, I demonstrate the value and importance of the inherent increase of social and unevenness, the reflection of social inequalities, and the language of social justice. In this paper I am particularly interested in exploring territorial cohesion as spatial political contexts of justice, and the disruption of social ties between the individual and society.JEL Classification: D63, R12Keywords: social justice, territorial cohesion, space, law1. IntroductionThe objective of this paper is to emphasize the importance of law's turn, the political conception of justice, and justice as a virtue of social institutions. I hope this paper makes a significant contribution to evaluating the problem of marginalization of space in law, the interrelations between social and inequalities, and the global context of justice. This paper seeks to fill a gap in the current literature by examining law's engagement with space, the multi-dimensionality of social cohesion in the city, and the way inequalities reinforce social unevenness.2. Law's Engagement with SpaceBarnett says that thinking of the world as fraught with ought does not require us to think of reasons as normative in a strongly transcendental, justificatory fashion} Pratschke and Morlicchio claim that segmentation and informal work reduce the potential for paid employment to function as a mechanism of social integration: rapid increases in disparities of wealth and power may trigger conflicts and undermine cohesion, there is no necessary relationship between social inequalities and segregation, and state services have far-reaching consequences for social cohesion.2 According to Silvey, inequalities in political power and economic resources are produced and reproduced in geohistorically particular forms.3Lee and Smith insist that manners, and the morality that they represent,4 are made by people situated in place and time: morals are socially constructed, being constituted in the geographies through which they take place, moralities are constructed through geographically articulated social interaction, and immoral may be defined, practiced and reproduced in distinctive ways across space and time, whereas the nature of morality and ethics is profoundly related to geography and difference the revitalization of cultural and social geography has had a distinctively normative tone).5 Lafont states that Rawls interprets the consensus on a set of constitutional rights6 that is characteristic of liberal democracies as an overlapping consensus: the international consensus that Rawls proposes is a consensus on a different set of rights, the constitutional rights that Western liberal democracies grant to their own citizens derive from a commitment to liberalism, and the international consensus that Rawls proposes represents a case of substantive minimalism (acceptance of the fact of reasonable pluralism at the domestic level is compatible with holding to one's liberal aspirations).7Brock develops a cosmopolitan model of global justice that takes seriously the equal moral worth of persons^ arguing for what our reasonable expectations of one another should be. Global justice requires that all are adequately positioned to enjoy prospects for a decent life. The responsibility to move towards instantiating more global justice in the world we inhabit is not evenly distributed. is a significant need for improved global regulation as an effective and neglected way of honoring our global justice commitments.9 Brock holds that reasonable people10 would care about enjoying a certain level of freedom: some space must be made on the list of features that define the dimensions of global justice for basic freedoms. There are many activities that humans in all cultures perform, and to be able to engage in such activities one must typically enjoy a number of basic liberties. …
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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