Review article

https://doi.org/10.21861/HGG.2012.74.01.01

Understanding Marginality: Recent Insights from a Geographical Perspective

Steve Déry ; Laval University, Quebec City (Quebec), Canada
Walter Leimgruber orcid.org/0000-0002-6135-3841 ; University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Walter Zsilincsar ; walter.zsilincsar@uni-graz.at

Abstract

Marginality and marginalisation have been researched extensively, especially during the 1960s and 1970s within the context of rapid urbanization in Latin America, mostly to try to find out who is marginal and who is not. But most researchers stumbled on the complexity of the phenomenon of marginality. Drawn from a geographical perspective, this note brings together research results presented in 2010, and coming from up-to-date fieldwork research in various regional contexts. Trying to find out common denominators, it highlights the importance of scale and perspective in considering marginality, as well as changes in power relations, the very basis of the marginalisation process.

Keywords

marginality; geography; scale; power; systems; integration

Hrčak ID:

86463

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/86463

Publication date:

1.9.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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