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NEBRAT Viktoriya 1

1Institute for Economics and Forecasting, NAS of Ukraine

Theoretical fundamentals of spatial justice

Ekon. teor. 2020; 4:99-115https://doi.org/10.15407/etet2020.04.099


ABSTRACT ▼

The purpose of the article is to generalize the theoretical foundations and directions of the development of spatial justice. The importance and urgency of the
issue is due to the strengthening of spatial inequality of economic development
and social inequality in the conditions of market transformation of Ukraine's economy and decentralization of management.
The author uses normative and positive approaches to reveal the theoretically desirable and real state of realization of equal opportunities for access to economic
resources and public goods. The hermeneutics method is used to clarify the direction of theoretical research and the meaning of produced scientific provisions; the
anthropocentric method – to justify the priority of economic interests over fiscal
ones and social interests – over economic ones; and a synthesis of historical and
logical methods – for a comprehensive presentation of the process of expanding
the subject field of the research on spatial justice and the generation of new
knowledge.
The study has revealed that the theory of spatial justice is interdisciplinary. Theoretical approaches to the interpretation of spatial justice by generalizing the main
directions of research within different branches of scientific knowledge, which include social philosophy, economic geography, political economy, and finance
theory. The conceptual interrelation and correlation of the categories "social inequality", "social justice", and "spatial justice/injustice" is revealed and the logic
of the consideration of spatial justice in land use based on those principal categories is substantiated. Based on the interdisciplinary approach, the limitations of the
interpretation of inequality as a function of social hierarchy have been overcome
and the role of the territorial dimension in the formation and reproduction of spatial injustice has been revealed.

Keywords:theory of spatial justice, social and spatial inequality, decentralization, local economic development, commodification of living space, availability of resources.


JEL: B31, D63, H72, N43, R14

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