Margins and frontiers

Margins and frontiers

Department

Social Research Center (SRC)

Abstract

Reem Saad Academic literature from a range of disciplines has no shortage of accurate and all-encompassing definitions of the concept of marginality. An example of such definitions is the following: Marginality is a complex condition of disadvantage which individuals and communities experience as a result of vulnerabilities that may arise from unfavourable environmental, cultural, social, political and economic factors. Although most discussions of marginality deal with distressed economic and ecological conditions of life, the concept of marginality can also be applied to cultural, social and political conditions of disadvantage. (Mehretu et al. 2000: 90) Gurung and Kollmair also stress the multifaceted nature of the concept and its connection to a state of disadvantage. They identify two principal conceptual frameworks within which marginality is defined and described: the societal, which focuses on ‘human dimensions such as demography, religion, culture, social structure (e. g. , caste/hierarchy/class/ethnicity/gender) , economics and politics in connection...

Publication Date

Winter 1-25-2021

Document Type

Book Chapter

Book Title

Marginality and exclusion in Egypt and the Middle East

Editors

Ray Bush , Habib Ayeb

ISBN

978-1-78032-084-7

Publisher

Zed Books Ltd

City

London

First Page

97

Last Page

111

Keywords

Middle East, North African Studies, marginalization, exclusion, Egypt, Mubarak, 25 January, economy

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