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Social Justice: Reimagined, Repoliticised, Realised

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Find out more about NTU's upcoming conference: Social Justice: Reimagined, Repoliticised, Realised.

If you are interested in registering for the conference, please contact Michele Grigolo and Louisa Parks at rn32esa@gmail.com.

  • From: Wednesday 11 June 2025, 12 am
  • To: Thursday 12 June 2025, 12 am
  • Location: Newton Building, City Campus, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
  • Booking deadline: Monday 12 May 2025, 11.59 pm
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Over the last decades, a sequence of crises have placed communities, cities, and societies across the world under enormous pressure. This has brought to the fore both new and old challenges about issues of redistribution and recognition. Redistribution issues emerge in numerous societal debates, including but not limited to those on sustainability and environmental justice, democracy and authoritarianism, and the rise of populism.

Divisions concerning recognition have (re)emerged around themes of gender and sexuality; ‘race’, religion, and nationality; age and (dis)ability, and their intersections: these are reinvigorated and sometimes manipulated with forms of mis- and dis-information for competing political agendas. Poverty, precarities, discrimination, and violations of human rights and humanitarian law are rampant, yet often marginal in political agendas, and further aggravated by austerity policies and welfare state retrenchment.

Under these circumstances, we ask the questions: What is social justice? Where is it (not)? What participation and vocabulary do struggles for social justice attract and produce? How are different scales of social action and political intervention interrogated by social justice, and how can knowledge be co-produced and exchanged between academics, activists, policy-makers and other stakeholders to help in the realisation of social justice? How is knowledge, science, and information used and misused to build narratives in debates around social justice, for example in so-called culture wars? How can we explore and understand the interrelationships between different concepts and experiences of social, environmental, and data justice? By asking these questions, we seek to place social justice at the centre of the analysis of the relationship between society and politics.

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Location details

Address:

Newton Building
City Campus
 Nottingham
 NG1 4BU

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