Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
The concept of "peripherisation" refers to the emergence of social and spatial disparities apt to cut off certain regions or partial spaces from positive development stimuli. However, the emergence of new peripheries and forms of inequality is not a result of "natural" development but of social practice. Discussing examples from Germany and other countries, the volume investigates peripherisation as a form of socially produced spatial dependence and inequality.
About the Author
Andrea Fischer-Tahir is research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient and works at the Joint Research Centre 640 "Representation of Social Orders" at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Matthias Naumann is a geographer and a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS) in Erkner. He also works as a visiting lecturer at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus.
Table of Contents
With contributions by Andrea Fischer-Tahir, Matthias Naumann, Eren Düzgün, Benjamin Zachariah, Thilo Lang, Tim Leibert, Alexandru Banica, Marinela Istrate, Daniel Tudora, Anja Reichert-Schick, Sabine Beisswenger, Thomas Bürk, Dolarice Sátyro Maia, Arian Mahzouni, Antía Mato Bouzas.