VIOLENCE(S) AND SPATIAL JUSTICE DEBATE IN LATIN AMERICA

SALAMANCA VILLAMIZAR CARLOS

Belgrado

Conferencia; Lectures of Institut for Philosophy and Social Theory; 2019

Institut for Philosophy and Social Theory

The discussion on space justice finds its origins in critical geography and in its classical formulation involved a development both within geography and in the philosophy of law and the so-called normative sciences. Recently emerging in Latin America, the concept has been promoted more as a cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary field of discussion than under the canonical definition. Considering violence in relation to spatial justice implies placing practices of violence in the social and political contexts these are produced, and relating them to the way social inequalities are created and reproduced by space and in space. We will do here a comprehensive review on the studies and researches that have explored this topic in Latin America during the last three decades through three aspects: First, State terrorism and violence. Second, tensions derived from memory, truth and justice vindications; and third, practices of violence as a result from neoliberal policies of security. Instead of successive events, these are circumstances that relate to the particular space and time they take place in. Therefore, while in some countries or regions these circumstances are a succession in time, in others, these overlap or occur simultaneously.