Marginality

Objective

Students will apply tools of marginality analysis to themes related to marginal groups or urban poverty.(Possible themes to select from):

• *hope and healing (e.g. Quiapo peddlers))
• health and education
• land security
• labor rights
• rural poverty and migration
• macro factors (national and global)
• women and urban poverty

Presentations

Read one of the articles by Perlman and one other ready to discuss the theory of marginality.

Apply aspects of that theory to one of the above issues in yoiur city.

Readings

Kramer, Mark. Mexico City, No Title, No Land, No Home. In Dispossessed pp 83-116

Andrea Menefee Singh, Women and The Family: Coping with Poverty in the Bastis of Delhi. In Afred de Souza, ed. The Indian City: Poverty, Ecology and Urban Development

Perlman, Janice. (2005), The Myth of Marginality Revisited. Unpublished paper.

Perlman, Janice. (2007). Marginality: From Myth to Reality: the Favelas of Rio de Janiero. Unpublished Paper.
Gulick, John. Marginality. In The Humanity of Cities. pp. 121-150