The research aims for the IGU Commission on Marginalization, Globalization and Regional and Local Responses are:

a)  To further the understanding of marginality and the processes of marginalization  through the study and analysis of factors that contribute to the dynamics and structures of spatial marginality at various scales;

b)  To analyse marginality as the result of human decisions, leading to the understanding of the role of various agents in those processes;

c)  To develop comparative approaches in order to identify various types of marginality and put them into perspective;

d)  To study policy responses to economic and societal problems in marginal regions in relation to the sustainability concept of regional and societal development, and to study the human response to global change, including its implications for marginalization.

 

The 2008 Barcelona Conference is organised around themes which explore and develop the long-term research tasks of the commission. It will focus on:

• New methodological approaches to globalization and marginalization
• Economic changes and social /cultural local responses
• Social movements in marginal areas: actors and politics
• Social dimension of marginalization: critical reflections

 

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