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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.
This volume looks at territories such as reservations, model
villages and collective towns as the spatial materialization of
forced assimilation and "progress". These disciplinary spaces were
created in order to disempower and alter radically the behavior of
people who were perceived as ill-suited "to fit" into hegemonic
imaginations of "the nation" since the 19th century. Comparing
examples from the Americas, Australia, North and East Africa,
Central Europe as well as West and Central Asia, the book not only
considers the acts and legitimizing narrations of ruling actors,
but highlights the agency of the subaltern who are often
misrepresented as passive victims of violent assimilation
strategies.
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