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Peripheralization

The Making of Spatial Dependencies and Social Injustice

  • The Making of Spatial Dependencies and Social Injustice

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-7
  2. Introduction:Peripheralization as the Social Production of Spatial Dependencies and Injustice

  3. Peripheralization and Urban Fragmentation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
    2. (N)ever Becoming Urban?The Crisis of Romania’s Small Towns

      • Alexandru Bănică, Marinela Istrate, Daniel Tudora
      Pages 283-301
    3. Peripheralization and Power – Theoretical Debates

      • Kühn Manfred, Bernt Matthias
      Pages 302-317
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 318-320

About this book

Peripheries emerge as a result of shifts in economic and political decision-making at various scales. Therefore peripheral spaces are not a “natural” phenomenon but an outcome of the intrinsic logic of uneven geographical development in capitalist societies. Discussing examples from Germany, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan, Pakistan, India and Brazil, the volume describes the social production of peripheries from different theoretical and methodological perspectives. In so doing, it argues in favour of a re-politicization of the recent debate on peripheralization.

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“In compiling 14 articles all dealing with processes of spatial differentiation but differing in regional focus and theoretical approach, the editors want to highlight the conceptual potential of peripheralization, its applicability in different regional contexts and the highly political issues it influences. … the volume can be recommended to anyone interested in diverse approaches concerning the critical empirical analysis of processes of peripheralization.” (S. Rettberg, Geographica Helvetica, Vol. 69, 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Berlin, Germany

    Andrea Fischer-Tahir

  • Erkner, Germany

    Matthias Naumann

About the editors

Andrea Fischer-Tahir is a social anthropologist and research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. She works on memory, gender, media, knowledge production as well as rural-urban dynamics in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. 

Matthias Naumann is a human geographer and a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning in Erkner (near Berlin). He also works as a visiting lecturer at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus. His research interests include urban and regional development, infrastructure governance and critical geography.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Peripheralization

  • Book Subtitle: The Making of Spatial Dependencies and Social Injustice

  • Editors: Andrea Fischer-Tahir, Matthias Naumann

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-19018-1

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-531-18332-9Published: 03 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-531-19018-1Published: 12 January 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 320

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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