Dear colleague,
you are cordially invited to the public lecture:
SPATIAL JUSTICE AND TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE EU
Professor Gordon Dabinett, Department of Town & Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, UK
16 September 2009, 15-17.00 hrs, Campus Radboud University, Erasmusbuilding Room 2.50
Abstract
The first discussions on territorial cohesion in the EU began in the early 1990s, but the significance of a territorial dimension alongside the economic and social goals of the EU has increased following the publication of the ‘Territorial Agenda for the EU’ (2007), the ‘Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion’ (2008) and the Barca Report on the future of EU Cohesion Policy (2009). These mark a break from previous policy in that they propose the promotion of a place-based approach. Crucially they call upon sector policies of the EU that have spatial impacts to also consider their contribution to territorial cohesion, potentially opening the door to a more comprehensive European wide spatial development policy. I argue in this lecture that there is a need to seek critical insights into some of the normative values of spatial justice embedded within these debates. Doing this reveals the contested constructions of spatiality, fairness and political agency that are given expression in the search for wider collective actions and common good.
This lecture is part of Nijmegen School of Management’s research programme ‘Governance and Places’ (http://www.ru.nl/gap/
For information on how to get to Radboud University please see http://www.ru.nl/nsm/contact_and/how_to_get_there/
