Overview
- Focuses on conflict potential that results from globalization-driven inequality and marginalization of many segments of societies
- Discusses relations between globalization and marginalization in various parts of the world with differing economic, political and social backgrounds
- Provides new insights into the social, cultural, political and economic nature of globalization-marginalization relation
Part of the book series: Perspectives on Geographical Marginality (PGEO, volume 6)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
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Society, Conflicts and Marginality
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Identities and Borders
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Poverty and Disparities
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Conclusion
Keywords
- Border regions
- Borderlands
- Boundaries
- Conflict
- Conflict issues
- Development
- Economic marginality
- Geography education
- Geographical marginality
- Geography of religion
- Globalization-driven inequality
- Globalization-marginalization relations
- Identity issues
- Minorities
- Poverty
- Social backgrounds
- Socio-economic Condition
- Urban geography
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš is a professor at the University of Zagreb (Croatia). Her research interests are mainly focused on borderlands areas, spatial perceptions and spatial (regional) identities, environmental history and landscape change, including the development of methodologies of research. Since 2016 she is the member of the Steering Committee of the IGU Commission on Marginalization, Globalization and Regional and Local Response. She has been also serving as the vice-president of the European Society for Environmental History (2017–19). She has co-authored 6 textbooks, edited 3 books and authored or co-authored more than 90 papers, among which 56 peer reviewed scholarly book chapters and research journal articles.
Walter Leimgruber is an emeritus professor of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) where he taught human and regional geography from 1982 to 2009. He presided the Swiss Geographical Society and Association of Swiss Geographers (1987–1989) and was chair of the IGU Commission on Evolving Issues of Geographical Marginality in the Early 21st Century World (2000–2004). His research focused on boundaries and transborder relations and on mountains and marginal regions. He has authored or co-authored 11 books, 47 book chapters and 79 articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Globalization, Marginalization and Conflict
Book Subtitle: Political, economic and social processes
Editors: Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš, Walter Leimgruber
Series Title: Perspectives on Geographical Marginality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53218-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53217-8Published: 22 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53220-8Published: 23 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53218-5Published: 21 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2367-0002
Series E-ISSN: 2367-0010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 202
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Economic Geography, Political Science, Globalization