May 29, 2023
Oddity Nr. 14 – La marginalité spatiale / Spatial Marginality (French Episode)
Todays talk combines two different and complementary disciplinary approaches from the physical and human geography that propose a simultaneous socio-cultural, geographical and spatial analysis of marginalised spaces. It begins with the conceptual explanation of the spatial and territorial margin. In a second step, based on empirical examples from research projects carried on in Dakar (the different types of margin occupations by the upper and lower classes), in the South of Italy (the instalment of illegal migrants in rural, marginalised areas for the tomato harvest) and in Jordan (the governmental resettlement project of fort he Bedouins from the UNESCO World Heritage site of Petra), the concept of marginality is explored from spatial, architectonical, territorial and socio-cultural perspectives.