Geographies of Conflict

Geographies of Conflict: Towards Liberation, Self-determination and Spatial justice in Sri Lanka's North-East

Subendran, Johnathan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Newton, C.E.L. (mentor)
Sepulveda Carmona, D.A. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Cities

2021-06-24

This research project aims to understand the spatial and procedural implications of planning and spatial justice in conditions of oppressive power and conflict. Ambitions towards spatial justice amongst marginalized ethnic minority populations are at further risk if liberal notions of government and planning continue to operate under the ethnocratic state regime. This demands an alternative approach and perspectives that are context-specific to which can engage with the realities of marginalized populations towards the quest for justice. The research framework is steered by an exploratory research approach that suggests an organic process to contextualize the preconditions of spatial justice as the research begins to unveil the marginalized areas of North-Eastern, Sri Lanka. The project aims to understand how spatial planning (planning and design) can unlock conditions to support the quest for spatial justice, self-determination, and liberation of Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka's North-East.

Spatial Justice
Ethnic-Conflict
Spatial planning
Self-Determination
Sri Lanka
research by design

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Student theses

master thesis

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