Contents
Introduction to the peripheral regions xv
Jerzy Banski
PART I CONCEPTS AND RESEARCH APPROACHES
1 Marginality: centres, peripheries, margins and left behind places 2
Borna Fuerst-Bjelis, Walter Leimgruber, Etienne Nel and Stanko Pelc
2 Periphery in the concepts of regional development and territorial
classifications 15
Jerzy Banski
3 Peripheries in contemporary social science concepts: an attempt at
synthesis 29
Marcin Wojcik and Karolina Dmochowska
4 Towards a relational understanding of peripheralisation: an examination of
English rural small towns 44
Martin Phillips
5 Peripheral regional innovation systems: conceptual contributions from
Latin America and applications in Argentina 63
Gabriela Starobinsky, Andres Niembro, Manuel Gonzalo and Carla
Daniela Cala
6 Definitions of northern/rural/remote/peripheric communities in Canada 79
Francois Brouard, Natalya Brown, Manuel Litalien and Etienne Sinotte
PART II DIAGNOSIS: PROCESSES AND TRENDS ON THE PERIPHERY
7 Converging or lagging behind European peripheries? Spatial inequalities
in post-millennial Hungary through the lens of local-level GDP estimations 94
Reka Horeczki, Ernn Molnar, Gabor Pirisi and Janos Penzes
8 Studying nomads, peripherality and agriculture in Southern Palestine,
1800-1947 109
Aviv Oppenheim, Noam Levin and Ruth Kark
9 Australian peripheries: concepts, diagnosis, and dilemmas 124
Anthony Sorensen
10 Rural demographic transitions and policy interventions: examining
depopulation mitigation strategies in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain 139
Inmaculada Carrasco Monteagudo, Juan Sebastian Castillo Valero,
Maria Carmen Garcia Cortijo and German Andres Cevallos Meneses
11 Urban peripheral territories in Africa: Maputo City, a case study 153
Manuel Madeira Macandza
12 Peripherality and populism: electoral consequences of spatial inequality
with particular reference to rural peripheral areas of Poland 167
Jerzy Banski, Mariusz Kowalski and Michal Konopski
13 The perceived decline of true rural life through the lens of ideal rural
childhood 185
Ondnej Klima, Pavel Pospnch and Barbora Hubatkova
14 The potential of the peripheral region in the Global South: regional
resilience in South Africa 199
Mariske van Aswegen and J. Ernst Drewes
PART III DILEMMAS OF DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND PLANNING IN
PERIPHERAL TERRITORIES
15 Pawned spaces: militarization, indebtedness and crime in the Sao Paulo
metropolitan fringes 215
Cesar Simoni Santos
16 From urban policy concept to practice in the periphery: smart shrinkage in
peripheral Finland 230
Teemu Makkonen and Petri Kahila
17 Rescaling dilemmas of governance in Hungarian rural peripheries 245
Ilona Palne Kovacs
18 Italy and the peripheral: national policies in search of cohesion 257
Giancarlo Cotella and Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone
19 North-South ecologically unequal exchange in waste production and
management: an action research project at the Radisson waste disposal site
(Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Quebec, Canada) 274
Maude Normandin Bellefeuille, Clara Vivin and Laurie Guimond
20 Decoding Danish dilemmas: barriers to including locals in planning for
the double periphery 288
Kasper Friis Bavnbaek
21 Regional migration policy as a tool to support the development of
peripheral regions: policy conceptualisation 303
Wojciech Janicki
22 Towards policy- and location-based allocation of rural development
funding: a rural development program for mainland Finland 316
Antti Petteri Hiltunen, Olli Lehtonen and Hilkka Vihinen
