Marginalization, Globalization and Regional and Local Responses
Commission C20.32 Marginalization, Globalization, and Regional and Local Responses
is one of 43 International Geographical Union (IGU) commissions.
The mission of the Commission is to research marginality and the processes of marginalization from different perspectives and with a geographical basis. The main focus is to better understand multiscalar relations between the globalization process and how marginality evolves at the local and regional levels. Moreover, we seek to improve our understanding of local and regional responses to different forms of marginality and marginalization processes.
Forthcoming events
Centennial UGI-IGU congress
Paris - 18-22 July 2022
Call for papers now open!
The event will be organised in venues epitomising the living heart of geography in the city: Sorbonne, Institut de Géographie, Société de Géographie.
Within our Commission, three sessions have been accepted:
Guibert Martine
Marginalization, globalization, and grands projets agricoles dans les périphéries des Suds : des
logiques adaptées aux transitions actuelles ?
Marginalization, globalization and large agricultural projects in the peripheries of the global South: a
logic adapted to the current transitions?
Carpentier Irène
La valorisation internationale du local au sud de la Méditerranée : entre impasses et recompositions territoriales
International valorization of the local scale in the southern Mediterranean: between deadlock and spatial reconfiguation
Fuerst-Bjelis Borna
Global and regional inequalities. what does the past teach us for the future?
Inégalités globales et régionales : qu’est-ce que le passé nous renseigne pour le futur ?
In addition, Mohana Basu’s session figures among the general thematic sessions:
The plight of the marginalized women in the developing world.
We invite you to submit your abstracts on the conference website to one of the Commission’s sessions, or to the thematic session, all listed above.
The call for abstracts is now open until January 11th, 2022. When you do so, please send also a copy to the Commission chair and the secretary (links below).
Thank you! Looking forward to meeting you in Paris
The organizers of the Paris IGC have made a travel grant scheme available. If you need such a grant, please use the form provided.
Recent events
BRIDGING REGIONAL RESPONSES TO MARGINALIZATION AND DISPARITIES IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Monday, 9th August 2021
9.00 – 9.30 Opening ceremony
9.30 – 11.00 Morning paper session
11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15 – 12.30 Paper session
12.30 – 13.30 Break
13.30 – 15.00 Afternoon paper session
15.00 – 15.15 Break
15.15 – 16.30 Paper session
16.30 – 17.00 Conclusions
Tuesday, 10th August 2021
9.00 – 11.00 Morning paper session
11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15 – 12.30 Paper session
12.30 – 13.30 Break
13.30 – 15.00 Afternoon paper session
15.00 – 15.30 Conclusions
15.30 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 17.00 Business meeting
Please note that this is an interim programme and is subject to change depending on the number of conference registrations.
The full online Conference Programme will be available starting with 15 July 2021.
Commission's session at
34th International Geographical Congress
16-20 August, 2021
News from the commission's secretary.
If you want to share some marginalization and globalization related information please contact prof. Walter Leimgruber (secretary) or prof. Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš.