Inequalities

This research area focuses on collective urban action, exploring the complex interplay between collective initiatives, social inequalities, and spatial configurations. Members of this group investigate inequalities as they manifest in various dimensions of social relations — particularly those related to gender, social background, housing, health, and education.
Their work examines how urban collective action can both reinforce and challenge mechanisms of exclusion, discrimination, and segregation. It also addresses how social groups mobilise and resist in order to reshape these processes.

Positioned at the intersection of social geography, urban sociology, and urban planning, this research draws on theoretical frameworks such as intersectionality and spatial justice. It considers how inequalities take form within spatial arrangements that are collectively produced and that — whether deliberately or inadvertently — sustain or generate social disparities. These spatial configurations are also contested terrains, central to struggles for equity and actively shaped through planning and urban governance processes.