Skip to main content

Sage Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

social science subjects > geography > human geography > political geography > geography of justice
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > political theory > political geography > geography of justice
... > social science subjects > geography > human geography > social and cultural geography > social geography > geography of justice

Preferred term

geography of justice  

Definition

  • Although there are multiple definitions of social justice, two leading notions deal with issues of procedural justice and distributional justice. Procedural justice issues in the United States traditionally have focused on libertarian ideals of personal rights, where individual freedoms and equality of opportunity are hallmarks of democracy and the free market system. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Justice, Geography of]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/geography_of_justice

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD