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Preface -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1 Introduction Marginalization – the Dark Side of Globalization -- Part I Society, Conflicts and Marginality -- Chapter 2 Civil Society vs. Globalization and Marginalization: Polarized vs. Organic Thinking -- Chapter 3 Do we Need to Change the System? Think Global and Create a Local Alternative -- Chapter 4 Armed Conflicts as Generators of Marginalization -- Part II Identities and borders -- Chapter 5 Relict Borders as Present Social-Cultural Divides in Czechia: an Example of Religious Landscape -- Chapter 6 Environmental Response to Marginality: Between the Borderlands and Littoralization in the Eastern Adriatic -- Chapter 7 Other and/or Marginal: Coexistence of Identities in the Historical Borderlands of Croatia -- Chapter 8 Geography Education and the Borderlands: Using a Marginalized Discipline to Teach about the Margins -- Part III Poverty and Disparities -- Chapter 9 Living on the Edge: Housing Challenges of the Urban Poor in Port Elizabeth, South Africa -- Chapter 10 Caste Rigidity and Socio-Economic Condition of Dalits in India -- Chapter 11 Marginalization, Globalization and Conflicts over Water: the Case of Slovenia -- Chapter 12 The Circulation of Knowledge at the Time of the Agroecological Transition, the Case of the Drôme Valley (France) -- Part IV Conclusion -- Chapter 13 Conclusion.

The Early Modern Croatian borderlands area reflects many social and cultural divides, shared spaces and intersecting identities. It represents an area of multiple contacts of three different imperial traditions in the Early Modern period; Ottoman, Habsburg and Venetian. That was a meeting place of East and West, Christianity and Islam and maritime and continental traditions. Frequent border changes throughout several centuries were followed by migrations and introduction of new (other) social and cultural communities, building and rebuilding the landscapes of multiple identities. Research into past spatial perceptions and images from historical maps is of particular interest in contact and shared spaces, where diverse cultures, religious systems and complex ethnic structures meet. Investigating regional identities in the contact spaces of the borderlands was based primarily on deconstructing maps of the time; tracing a map rhetoric and its symbolic meaning. The westernmost border of the Ottoman Empire with the Habsburg Monarchy was primarily a border between Islam and Christianity. That fact notwithstanding, the Orthodox Christians were also perceived as Others among the dominant population of Roman Catholic affiliation in (Habsburgian) Croatia. The borderlands were more likely a shared space and not so much a divide of different intersecting cultural (religious) identities, that were appreciated and recognized. Landscapes of diverse identities were analyzed and discussed through a number of historical regional examples i.e. Morlacca, Minor Wallachia and Turkish Croatia.

"This book examines how COVID-19 has often enhanced social and economic marginalisation in different places and societies around the world. It explores the reality that selective deglobalisation is occurring and over and above the human tragedy which has been experienced, many societies and economies have had to adapt to the new reality which they find themselves in. Governments have been challenged to improve health care and provide economic relief and stimulus packages to sectors as diverse as tourism and education which have had to develop new ways of coping. Resilience theory is drawn on to help explain some of the creative responses which we observe, while in other places deep-rooted concerns for the future are a stark reality. By describing how the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing geographic, social and economic marginalisation, particularly for the most vulnerable places, societies and economic activities globally, this book provides insight into the impacts and implications across the world and reflects on the different experiences."--Provided by publisher.