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Research and policy analysis often presumes a 'mobility imperative' in respect of rural youth; to 'get on' they have to 'get out'. Those who stay, therefore, tend to be depicted as socially and economically deficient, backward, lacking agency and 'left behind'. The aim of our paper is to provide a corrective to this sort of thinking. We present new, extensive, qualitative, longitudinal research conducted with fifty young men and women who have chosen to stay in rural, 'Peripheral Denmark'. Our sample were doubly marginalised; by the lack of opportunities of their localities and by their lack of progress and achievement in their school-to-work transitions. We found that young people practised an intriguing and complex emotional reflexivity about staying. Our analysis documents their entangled feelings of 'stuckness' (e.g. in relation to lack of transport and services, isolation from typical youth leisure, in on-going family commitments) and of 'stillness' (e.g. in the serenity of nature, in family belonging and in educational support). In conclusion, we suggest that the concept of 'reflexive stayers' captures these young people's lived experiences of 'stillness' and 'stuckness' and could be beneficial to future research and policy analysis on rural youth, mobility and marginalisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the controversy generated by Mario Vargas Llosa's novel "The War of the End of the World," published in 1981. The novel fictionalizes the conflict between the Brazilian army and a movement led by Antônio Conselheiro. Some critics considered that Vargas Llosa had created a bad novel based on one of the best texts of Brazilian literature, while others praised him as one of the youngest and most talented writers of the Latin American Boom. The article also highlights the interpretation of the novel by British critic Donald Shaw, who questions the ability of literature to explain historical reality. The novel is analyzed from different critical perspectives, highlighting the importance of the state control system and taxes in the plot, as well as the different truths and socio-economic and partisan power struggles. The idea that fanaticism and violence are essential traits of the Latin American character is also questioned. The stance of Ángel Rama is mentioned, who praises the novel and considers it a masterpiece of artistic fanaticism. The text also analyzes the narrative strategies used by Vargas Llosa, highlighting the partiality of the narrator in favor of the rebels of Canudos and the importance of character descriptions and landscape. The perspective of the characters Galileo Gall and the nearsighted journalist is mentioned, as well as Gall's paternalistic and colonialist stance and the strategy of politicians and journalists to silence the situation in Canudos. The character of Jurema and her reflection on violence and religion in the context of the Canudos rebellion is highlighted, as well as the character of Estela and her loss of reason. The interpretation of violence in the novel is questioned and the logic and beliefs of the sertão are emphasized. [Extracted from the article]

Until 1962, Canada was legally a Eurocentric racial state. After abandoning state-sanctioned racism in 1967, politicians soon realized that institutional entrenchment of racism would need more than laws-based anti-racism. Today, institutional racism, however, remains entrenched in Canadian institutions despite various mitigating processes by all levels of governments since the 1970s. In this qualitative paper, we analyze the marginalizing effects of system anti-Black racism and the dissonances between strategies and attitudes of system professionals and African-Canadian grassroots youth workers. From our findings, we conclude that effective youth workers prioritize behavior-in-time (experience-based) over behavior-in-discourse (text-based) in service provision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the treatment of the face in the work of Palermo filmmakers Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco and proposes several considerations regarding the stark nudity of the face, its rawness and strength, and the relationships that the two filmmakers establish between face and mask. Through an analysis of the cinematic fiction of Maresco and Ciprì – Lo zio di Brooklyn (The Uncle from Brooklyn) (1995), Totò che visse due volte (Totò Who Lived Twice) (1998) and Il ritorno di Cagliostro (The Return of Cagliostro) (2003) – as well as their television work on Cinico TV (1989–96), this article demonstrates how the face emerges as a powerful tool that combats aesthetic homogeneity and narrative indoctrination of the media, as well as outlines a grotesquely attractive world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban transformation in the post-socialist city is connected to comprehensive debates. This paper steers the reader through these, emphasising three contentions that serve to clarify the approach to two interconnected questions: How do people give meaning to urban transformation? In which ways does an analysis of societal change in a peripheral city in pre-war Russia contribute to debates on global urbanism? The paper is structured in three main parts, beginning with the review of the post-socialist city literature. The focus in this study is on experiences, bringing a more human perspective on urban transformation in combination with analysis of structural dimensions impeding on the everyday. In the second part, Togliatti is introduced as a research site and details on data collection are provided. The paper contributes empirically with a study of urban transformation in the auto-town Togliatti in the Samara region southeast of Moscow, Russia. The third part is devoted to interlocutors' perspectives and the emergence of the narrative of 'becoming marginal'. In conclusion, becoming marginal is a narrative that gives meaning to the historical conjuncture and the grievances people reflect on as they reason about individual life trajectories. While place-specific, these experiences link to global (urban) discussions on marginality and precarity. The paper underscores that making sense of experiences means to reflect on these in context, and in a final discussion, it reflects how much more difficult such research has become after Russia's military attack on Ukraine on 24 February 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Higher education practitioners are a wide-ranging group of professionals often responsible for implementing programs and services that support student success. In this qualitative study, we examine the nature of student–practitioner relationships among a multiracial sample of 39 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) college seniors to address three questions: (a) How do STEM students describe their relationships with practitioners on campus? (b) In what ways, if any, do student–practitioner relationships influence STEM students' feelings of marginality and/or mattering in STEM? and (c) To what extent do STEM students have different experiences based on their racial/ethnic identities? We employ a cross-case study analysis approach, contrasting the experiences of majority-status (e.g., White and Asian/Asian American) and minoritized-status (e.g., Black/African American and Latinx) students within STEM contexts. Our findings show clear differences regarding how students describe their interactions with practitioners based on racial/ethnic background, as well as how student–practitioner relationships impact students' sense of mattering and marginality in STEM. We conclude with implications for research and practice to address the persistent structural issues affecting STEM college students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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1. Who am I? 2. Where do I belong? 3. What am I called to? These three questions represent the narrative shifts that are the outcomes of the Identity/Belonging/Agency (IBA) transformative development framework. The IBA framework emerged from the author's critical reflections on fiction reading and dialogues in 12+ community conversations to explore everyday global African/Black experiences. It responds to the self-inquiry: How do global Africans/Black peoples experience developmental transformation in the context of social marginality? It conceptualizes that the key developmental tasks of global Africans/Black peoples lies in claiming identity through differentiation from dominant narratives of marginality, belonging through locating self-in-society and community, and agency through a focus on self-in-transcendence. The IBA framework is proposed as core to understanding how global Africans/Black peoples, and perhaps other socially constructed racialized groups, can choose to move from marginality to personal as well as social transformation through their agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article centres on one of the driving forces that runs throughout the work of author Sara Mesa: specifically, areas of subalternity, that is, subjects or spaces which either belong to the margins of what is considered normative or those which prove difficult to 'hear'. Thus, Mesa's literature works with territories that are in conflict for dominant and normative understandings of the social, hence her focus on characters in their childhood, her reflection on the effects generated by places of discipline (schools, psychiatric hospitals, orphanages), or her denunciation of narratives that render subjects in social exclusion and poverty invisible. In this sense, this article proposes a first approach to what can be considered the conscious exploration of certain areas of subalternity (subjects and/or spaces) through narrative tools. To do so, two paradigmatic examples have been selected: the story about a woman living in poverty told in Silencio administrativo ('Administrative silence') (2019), and the fictional story about a teenage girl who suffers harassment and a man undergoing psychiatric treatment in Cara de pan ('Among the hedges') (2018). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on research conducted with users and librarians of the National Library of Romania, this article discusses specific forms of integration of marginal people in Bucharest: young adults with no stable employment and pensioners. Some come to have access to information; others want to self-educate, enrich themselves culturally, and benefit from the library staff's support. The article argues that libraries should partner with other private and public stakeholders to empower librarians to deal with complex situations and foster further forms of inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Low‐income neighbourhoods in contemporary England continue to be buffeted by roiling economic inequalities and social policy absences. Long‐term residents have a unique perspective on this socio‐spatial stress. This article zooms in to examine the condition of one spatial manifestation of these broader forces: peripheral council/public housing estates in the deindustrialised North of England—in this case the ex‐coalfields of West Yorkshire. Neighbourhood conditions are seen through the eyes of residents aged between 60 and 85 years. The article explores their accounts of the local economic, social, and political changes which have interlaced their experiences of work, community, and place over six decades. It also examines how irregular regeneration projects, emergency initiatives and local organising have tried to address and ameliorate structural marginalisation in recent years, not least during the Covid pandemic. The article provides a historically contingent account of contemporary socio‐spatial stress, one that emphasises the significance of long‐term residence and feelings of not only loss and nostalgia, but hopeful and resilient attachments to place.

Este artículo analiza la obra Manual práctico del odio de Ferréz a la vista de algunas teo-rías que abordan aquello relegado a los márgenes. El objetivo es demostrar que en la obra de Ferréz todos los personajes, en su situación de sujetos marginalizados, patenti-zan la condición de residuo humano, siendo tanto víctimas rezagadas del progreso eco-nómico como víctimas de estigmas y diatribas que manifiestan seres jerárquicamente superiores. La pesquisa considera como eje vertebral el concepto de residuos humanos de Zygmunt Bauman, planteamiento que se entrelaza con fuentes secundarias (Butler, Lipovetsky, Lynch, Paugam, Silva-Santisteban, Wacquant) referentes a otras formas y dimensiones de la marginalidad. This article analyzes the work Manual Prático do ódio by Ferréz in the light of some theo-ries that deal with what is relegated to the margins. The aim is to demonstrate that in Ferréz’s work all the characters, in their situation of marginalized subjects, show the condition of human waste, being both lagging victims of economic progress and vic-tims of stigmas and diatribes manifested by hierarchically superior beings. The research considers Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of human waste as its backbone, an approach that is intertwined with secondary sources (Butler, Lipovetsky, Lynch, Paugam, Silva-Santisteban, Wacquant) referring to other forms and dimensions of marginality.

El siguiente artículo propone una revisión de los presupuestos temáticos y estructurales utilizados en las novelas de Lina Meruane Las infantas (1998) y Fruta podrida (2007), desde una perspectiva socioliteraria basada en algunas ideas desarrolladas por Slavoj Žižek en sus distintos análisis sobre la violencia, la ideología y el poder. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es descubrir si, a modo de actualización, Fruta podrida supone una reformulación de las premisas antisistema que movilizan a los personajes en torno a puntos centrales en ambas novelas como las corporalidades, la marginalidad o el exceso escatológico, entre otros.

A good collection of existing literature provides limited reflection on classifying post-conflict countries as being 'peaceful'. This is especially so, as the period following the end of a civil war is normally characterised, as a period of 'peace', thereby equating peace to the silence of the guns. Such an understanding of what constitutes peace in post-conflict settings is problematic. This is because, societies in transition, are usually plagued with a plethora of challenges, with the legacies of war normally shaping the resurgence of violence in other forms. Additionally, complex transitions of violence and aggression, which reflect the socio-economic and political gyrations of a society redefining itself, and reconstructing its values are seen in most post-conflict contexts. Thus, using the case of Sierra Leone, this paper argues that some post-conflict settings experience negative peace, and diverse forms of violence that usually render communities unsafe, insecure and not peaceful. Thus, boxing societies in a bracket of being peaceful, because of the end of a violent civil war, limits what peace means in a specific contextual sense. It even undermines the potential for a broader approach towards understanding how the emerging forms of violence and aggression could be addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The following article proposes a review of the thematic and structural presuppositions used in Lina Meruane’s novels Las infantas (1998) and Fruta podrida (2007), from a socioliterary perspective based on some ideas developed by Slavoj Žižek in his different analyses on violence, ideology, and power. The main objective of this work is to discover if, by way of updating, Fruta podrida could suppose a reformulation of the antisystem premises that mobilize the characters around central points in both novels, such as corporalities, marginality, and eschatological excess, among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Global Threads, Unveiling Unevenness: Contemporary Maximalist Projects Interrogating Cultural Hybridisation and Marginality. Within a frame that emphasizes the tension between the global and the local, this paper aims to investigate the ways in which complex narratives that incorporate the tropes of migration, periphery, and marginality, amongst others, can bring to light aspects of unevenness and cultural and formal hybridisation. Works like Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, or Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other employ distinct maximalist modes of inquiry (Nick Levey) to question topics related to inequality, cultural relevance, or representational biases, in a type of novel about which James Wood claimed that it “suffered from an excess of storytelling and an almost paranoid preoccupation with linking up their many subplots in a web of forced meaning.” What stands at the core of this article is precisely this impulse to force a meaning which seems most frequently disrupted by an anarchetypal propensity to renegotiate a “rhetoric of inclusivity” (Franco Moretti) through which the maximalist author tries to exhaustively encompass the whole world (Levey). By selecting a corpus of maximalist novels to illustrate their evolution from the second half of the 20th century until more recent works, such as Evaristo’s, this paper investigates the shift through which these narratives have started to factor margins in, differently and more frequently than in the beginnings of this literary form. Fire globale, dezvăluind inegalitatea: Proiecte maximaliste contemporane care interoghează hibriditatea culturală și marginalitatea. Într-un cadru care evidențiază tensiunea dintre global și local, acest text își propune să investigheze modurile în care anumite narațiuni complexe care încorporează figurile migrației, periferiei și marginalității, printre altele, pot pune în lumină aspecte legate de inegalitate și de hibridizarea culturală și formală. Cărți precum Dinți albi de Zadie Smith, Ministerul fericirii supreme de Arundhati Roy sau Fată, femeie, alta de Bernardine Evaristo folosesc moduri de investigare maximaliste specifice (Nick Levey) pentru a aduce în discuție subiecte legate de inegalitate, relevanță culturală sau biasuri de reprezentare, într-un tip de roman despre care James Wood susținea că „suferă de un exces al povestirii și de o preocupare aproape paranoică de a lega numeroasele intrigi secundare într-o rețea de sens forțat”. Miza principală a acestui articol vizează tocmai acest impuls de a forța un sens care pare cel mai frecvent perturbat de o tendință anarhetipică de a renegocia o „retorică a incluziunii” (Franco Moretti) prin care autorul maximalist încearcă să cuprindă într-un mod exhaustiv întreaga lume (Levey). Selectând un corpus de romane maximaliste cu scopul de a ilustra evoluția lor din a doua jumătate a secolului XX până la opere mai recente, precum cea a lui Evaristo, această lucrare investighează schimbarea prin care aceste narațiuni au început să țină cont de margini într-un mod diferit și mai frecvent decât la începuturile acestei forme literare. Cuvinte-cheie: Romane maximaliste; Hibridizare; Migrație; Marginalitate; Anarhetip; Postmodernism. Article history: Received 07 February 2024; Revised 28 March 2024; Accepted 11 April 2024; Available online 25 June 2024; Available print 30 June 2024.

The Secret Memory. How the Goncourt 2021, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Rewrites the Story of the “Black Rimbaud”. In a mixture of “savage detective story” à la Bolaño, of diary, journalism, interviews and discussions on “plagiarism,” the revolutionary book of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr rewrites the history of Western relations to Africa, to its cultures and its storytelling, but also to different forms of marginality, since its main character, Elimane Madag, is also travelling to South America, being part of its most interesting intellectual circles – through, for instance, Sábato, Gombrowicz, Silvina and Victoria Ocampo. Through voices of Senegalese, Haitian, Argentinian writers and poets, through an apocryphal rewriting of the literary history of the twentieth century, through subverting the theory of plagiarism (since African myths are reinterpreted and melted in the Western culture, similar to African artefacts after the expedition Dakar-Djibouti), as well as through detective journalism (since many characters are interrogating the relation facts-fiction), the marginal and the minor are presented as an alternative, disruptive literary history of the twentieth and of the beginning of the twenty-first century. Memoria secretă. Despre cum laureatul premiului Goncourt 2021, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, rescrie povestea unui „Rimbaud negru”. Într-un amestec de „detectivism sălbatic” à la Bolaño, de jurnal, jurnalism, interviuri și discuții despre „plagiat”, romanul revoluționar al lui Mohamed Mbougar Sarr rescrie istoria relațiilor Occidentului cu Africa, cu culturile sale și cu modul ei de a povesti, dar și cu forme diferite de marginalitate, din moment ce personajul principal, Elimane Madag, călătorește în egală măsură în America de Sud, făcând parte din cercurile ei intelectuale cele mai interesante – prin intermediul, de exemplu, al lui Sábato, Gombrowicz, Silvina și Victoria Ocampo. Trecând prin voci de scriitori și poeți senegalezi, haitieni și argentinieni, printr-o rescriere apocrifă a istoriei literare a secolului XX, prin subversiunea teoriei plagiatului (din moment ce mituri africane sunt reinterpretate și preluate în cultura occidentală, la fel cu artefactele africane, după expediția Dakar-Djibouti), precum și prin jurnalism detectivist (întrucât multe dintre personaje interoghează relațiile dintre fapte și ficțiune), marginalul și minorul sunt prezentate ca o istorie literară alternativă, perturbatoare a secolului XX și a începutului de secol XXI. Cuvinte-cheie: marginalitate, minor, mituri africane, cultură occidentală, plagiat Article history: Received 26 April 2024; Revised 04 June 2024; Accepted 12 June 2024; Available online 25 June 2024; Available print 30 June 2024.

The purpose of the article is to trace the fictional features of the reception of marginality through the prism of social communication of the main characters in Patrik Süskind`s texts “Der Kontrabass”, “Das Parfüm”, “Die Taube”, “Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer”. The task is to find out the signs of marginalization of the main characters, to understand their symbolic essence, to determine the triggers that provoked the “borderline” state of a person, and the literary techniques used by the author to reveal the problem of marginality. Historical-literary, cultural-historical, hermeneutic, comparative research methods, sociological approach in the study of marginality were used in this investigation. The concept of “marginality” is interpreted as the presence of an individual in a borderline, peripheral state in relation to other social or professional communities. In the works of Patrick Süskind, within the framework of postmodern aesthetics, a type of marginal hero is invented, and some variations of him are built. The key motif in reproducing the mechanism of marginalization of characters in P. Süskind`s stories is the motif of loneliness in its various manifestations: the seclusion of the hero, his alienation from society, sociophobe. It was found that the image of a marginal hero is not typical, Süskind’s characters are different: the contrabass player is a procrastinator, the perfumer Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is a brilliant criminal, the bank guard Jonathan Noel is a modernized image of a “man in a case”, the eccentric traveler Herr Sommer is a sociophobe. The last literary character is open to the world (three other characters can be described as “recluses”). The image of Grenouille is a simulacrum, and as for other literary characters, readers can find their prototypes in real life. It is emphasized that the author forces readers to look at the problem of marginality in a new way: these are not only scum but also creative people who somehow ended up in the peripheral state of a certain professional or social community. Such creative natures appeared in Süskind’s texts as a contrabass player and a perfumer – in order to clarify the mechanism and features of their marginalization, the author reconstructed the professional environment in the historical context in detail. The author`s reproduction of the specifics of the behavior of marginal heroes is traced: from mental suffering to suicide, with an emphasis on determining the triggers that provoked suicide. The analysis of Süskind’s works shows that the extreme forms of marginalization of literary characters caused the psychological trauma experienced by the characters. The writer is guided by deep knowledge of psychology, in particular, the theory of psychoanalysis, the phenomenon of procrastination, and suicidal behavior. The article decodes the socio-historical background, which is present as a dotted line in each of Patrick Süskind’s stories. They take place in Germany and France in the second half of the 20th century (in the novel “Perfume” – in the French city of the 18th century). Undoubtedly, the author, who is apolitical in the public sphere, consistently condemns the war, Nazism and its manifestations in all his texts. P. Süskind posed to the readers numerous questions relevant to German society: overcoming the legacy of Nazism, for instance, in music, the impact of the Holocaust on the psyche and fate of its victims, re-evaluation of the value system and the role of art in it. Such fictional techniques of postmodernism as the “multilayering” of the texts, their open ending, irony, parody, allusions, the reception of binary oppositions, the motif of energy vampirism, materialism, the blurring of genre boundaries, etc. made it possible to realize author’s ideas.

This review opens a conversation with Japan's Russia on hierarchy and hegemony in modern history. The goal declared in the volume's subtitle is ambitious: to challenge the East-West paradigm. The East-West binary is an old one and has been subject to many important and sophisticated critiques. But unlike most, which have focused on the problem of some East and the hegemony of the West, this volume brings two marginalized places, two Easts, into interaction. By doing so, these essays destabilize the grounding of modern history in absolute time and absolute space. Time, space, and the document have been foundational elements in modern history, especially in the marginalization of various peoples. By expanding the past to pasts and focusing on interactions, times, and permeable boundaries, this collection shows the potential of those margins for a more heterogeneous (and less hegemonic) history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses women's role in Kerala's small-scale marine fishing industry and changes that took place during COVID-19. Pandemic conditions enabled and accelerated the restructuring of Kerala's fishing industry practices, leaving marginal groups even more marginal. Small-scale producers and sellers were edged out by larger players in a new wholesale market. Meanwhile, female vendors who utilised public transport and face-to-face sales methods found themselves locked out from new retail methods introduced during the pandemic, which made use of smartphone apps, online platforms, and private light vehicles. Underemployed workers with access to digital technology and mobility moved in to fill the lockdown retail gap. The Gulf states' continuing squeeze on jobs and resultant migration slow-down contributed to these trends. Female fish-vending activity has also been affected by Kerala's acceleration of bourgeois respectability norms. The state government's modernisation and centralisation policies also led to the shrinking of women's spaces in fish auction markets. Recent inequalities in digital and mobility access sit on top of longstanding entrenched class and status inequities and conservative gender norms, while the enduring chronic 'wicked problem' of Kerala's unemployment levels demands urgent attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite a series of critiques concerning its validity as a tool of socio-political analysis, the notion of ‘marginality’ continues to play a role in a range of important global debates. This article offers an overview of these debates, proceeding from the contention that the question of ‘margin’ has in fact played an enduring (if not indeed constitutive) role in the institutionalisation of the social sciences and English literary studies as areas of academic inquiry. While such a claim enables the article to rethink that series of methodological ‘shifts’ that is often assumed to have structured the history of English literary studies, it also considers the ways in which M. NourbeSe Philip’s 1989 text, ‘Discourse on the Logic of Language’, might help us to rethink the notion of ‘marginality’ itself (that is, not so much as a kind of ‘framework’ than as the dynamic product of an ideological exchange between those more or less ‘central’ and ‘marginal’ elements of a given interpretive situation). Insofar as such a dynamic might also be seen to inform understandings of the wider paradigm of ‘modernity’, the article concludes with a consideration of its implications in relation to intersectionality, interdisciplinarity, and the university institution in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Turkey, the centralization of cities due to globalization and neoliberal policies has led to inequality between urban and rural areas. Therefore, in rural studies in Turkey, efforts are mostly made to eliminate or mitigate inequalities. This study aims to understand the reasons for the unequal position of the countryside compared to the city, rather than finding solutions to the inequalities. The perception of rural areas as marginal is evaluated based on interviews with planning experts in Malatya Province. The themes identified from the semi-structured interviews with the experts responsible for planning in the province revealed the challenges of not being able to integrate rural and urban areas in the planning process. Additionally, it was found that the flow of information between different levels and scales in planning contributed to the perception of marginalization among the experts perception of marginalization among the experts. The study reveals that not planning rural and urban areas together creates difficulties, and the flow of information in planning contributes to the perception of marginality. Political discourses emphasizing urban values contribute to the expansion of marginality and increased inequality in rural areas. Understanding the types and factors of marginality in rural areas is crucial for holistic urban-rural planning and setting planning priorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There exist ongoing calls among social work scholars and practitioners to cultivate applied knowledge of critical and emancipatory practice. In this paper, I explore the utility of text-based vignettes as instruments that can be used to elicit insight from marginalized service users on critical social work practice. To do this work, I draw on data from interviews with 20 transgender and gender diverse (TGD) social service users, along with 10 social workers, whose responses to a text-based vignette were originally used to build an understanding of the constituents of equitable social work practice with TGD people. Incorporating critical pragmatism as a conceptual framework and constructivist grounded theory as a methodological orientation, I analyze data from this study as an exemplar that substantiates the promise of using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research to generate knowledge of critical social work practice. Specifically, I demonstrate how text-based vignettes in this study (1) contextualized the meaning, significance, and impact of oppression for service users, (2) built insight on practice that reflects solidarity and allyship, and (3) identified opportunities for social workers' reflexive use of professional power to effect change. Accounting for the tensions between empiricism and critical praxis in social work, I consider the promise of incorporating text-based vignettes to develop empirical social work literature that is rooted in the voices of marginalized service users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the article, the author discusses the challenges and issues facing liberal arts and humanities education in the U.S. Also cited are the claim by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona that students should focus on courses that align with industry demands to prepare them as the workforce of the future, and how humanities and liberal arts can contribute to the training and education of said students.

Across Europe marginalization has been highlighted as an object of important political concern. In the area of Central Europe and the Balkans, the problem of marginalization has not been sufficiently researched. This particularly applies to the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Using the GIS multicriteria decision analysis a composite index of geographical marginalization (GMAR) was created. Marginalization is analyzed as a multidimensional concept using the 4 groups with a total of 40 criteria. Spatial patterns were detected from extremely marginalized to extremely non-marginalized regions. The GMAR indicates the existence of regional disparities in BiH. The high degree of marginalization, especially those in the border sector, alerts the implementation of the demarginalization measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork with young Anglican social justice activists in Aotearoa New Zealand, this article engages with Romand Coles's theory of receptive generosity, and the theme of the Western church as marginal, to explore why a particular Anglican diocese was attracting new, millennial-aged members, most of whom did not grow up Anglican. I consider how spaces of generous reciprocity were formed and enabled through living in intentional communities (ICs) and being able to engage with pluralistic "broad table" spaces of discussion and dissent. These factors were part of what drew the research participants to this diocese and to Anglicanism in general, as well as enhancing their social justice activism. My research shows the importance of intentionally making spaces of belonging for millennials and Gen Z aged people in a faith community, rather than hoping the status quo of the past will suffice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is the impetus toward "surplus population" in Marx's analysis an effect of capital's law of accumulation or a "function" of it? How might a Marxist analysis of "surplus population" aid in theorizing demographic change under the capitalist mode of production? And to what extent are individuals who lack a "proper job" superfluous to capital accumulation? This article engages these questions through a survey of Marxist and marxisant attempts to theorize the exclusion of certain populations from capitalist employment. The way in which these questions are answered—the way, that is, in which "excluded" populations are understood to relate to processes of capital accumulation—has implications for thinking through appropriate political responses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zimbabwean women constitute a significant number of migrants living in South Africa. Both accompanying spouses and lone Zimbabwean migrant women face challenges in securing formal employment and are often forced to establish informal businesses for their survival. Drawing on qualitative interviews, this study explored perceived challenges and triumphs encountered by Zimbabwean women in informal trading across South Africa. All the women indicated that they established survivalist businesses once in South Africa. Lack of fulfilling employment, poor wages, family financial pressures, disruptions and exclusion from social welfare benefits during the coronavirus lockdown were some of the factors that pushed migrant women into informal businesses. Establishment of informal businesses protected women from resorting to commercial sex work and other transactional relations. Challenges encountered include lack of funding to establish their businesses, low returns, crime, sexual harassment from clients, extortion, and fear of xenophobic attacks. Despite these challenges, Zimbabwean women described how they managed to build a strong clientele and improve their financial wellbeing in the process. Funding institutions can support migrant women through the provision of business loans, and training women on how to run businesses and saving. This will financially empower migrant women and protect their physical, sexual, and mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper addresses inequality and marginality in Russia through an urban lens. Mono-industrial cities, in short “monotowns”, are attractive locations for this research because of the legacy of city-building enterprises, industrial reconstruction, and crisis. Approaching experiences of people, whose voices are rarely heard in studies of (pre-war) Russia, the paper addresses two interconnected questions: How do people in monotowns describe experiences with marginality in the everyday? What does marginality mean for politics and societal development in Russia at war? The empirical analysis draws on experiences from three monotowns, Tolyatti, Nikel, and Zapolyarny. Interviews were conducted in the period 2019–2022. The analysis illustrates subjective experiences with urban transformation and includes reflections on industrial restructuring, downsizing, and precarity, as well as civic activism, entrepreneurship, and self-employment. Across these experiences, narratives of marginality and decay emerge, which complement research on political economic change in Russia with perspectives on a new social periphery. This development in monotows is situated in context of the global financial crisis 2008 and the annexation of Crimea in 2014. In conclusion, the experiences are about subjects living through the “transit” and endless “collapse” of the previous system. A final discussion addresses the risk marginality entails for political legitimacy in Russia.

In the current era of globalized economies and cultures, literature plays the role of vocalizing and narrating the impacts and consequences on underrepresented members of society. The characters in these stories occupy the social margins that are, in part, products of neoliberal policies. Their lives are narrated from a place of discursive alterity, thus opening a new space for heterogeneity, their novels address and reflect the effects of globalization on the transnational currents that it facilitates. Although Valeria Luiselli and Fernanda Melchor are Mexican authors with very different literary styles, they are united in their approach to vital issues in contemporary society. In this essay, I will focus on how the comparative study of two of their novels, Desierto Sonoro (Luiselli 2020) and Páradais (Melchor 2021) will reveal the effects of the neoliberal policies mplemented in Mexico after the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has transcended the economic dimension and its impact is felt in new manifestations of marginality, spaciality and social interactions.