Table Of ContentPerspectives on Geographical Marginality
Stanko Pelc
Miha Koderman Editors
Nature, Tourism and
Ethnicity as Drivers of
(De)Marginalization
Insights to Marginality from Perspective
of Sustainability and Development
Perspectives on Geographical Marginality
Volume 3
Series editors
Walter Leimgruber, Fribourg, Switzerland
Etienne Nel, Dunedin, New Zealand
Stanko Pelc, Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia
This book series Perspectives on Geographical Marginality comprehensively
overviews research, on areas and communities impacted by processes of
marginalization as a result of globalization, economic, environmental, political
andsocialchange. Thisseriesseeks todiscussanddeterminewhat isgeographical
marginality by inviting leading international experts to publish theoretical and
appliedwork.Italsoseekstorigorouslydebatethedegreetowhichlocalareasand
communities are responding to these process of change and with what success.
The series stems from the International Geographical Union’s (IGU),
‘Commission on Globalization, Marginalization, and Regional and Local
Response’ (C12.29). As is suggested by its name, the commission researches the
problem of geographical marginality offering a leading forum from which this
series will be led. Marginality cannot be defined without putting it into a certain
perspective: economic, political and social (including cultural). Marginality has to
be clearly distinguished from peripherality. Marginal areas may be a part of
periphery or even the centre, but “cannot really be attributed to them”.
Proposed themes which will be covered include:
(cid:129) Mountainous regions and globalization;
(cid:129) Regional development and policy/or: Globalization and its impact on local and
regional development;
(cid:129) Theory of marginalization;
(cid:129) Transformation of rural areas from the viewpoint of globalization and
marginalization;
(cid:129) Drivers of marginalization in border and peripheral areas.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15046
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Editors
Nature, Tourism
and Ethnicity as Drivers
of (De)Marginalization
Insights to Marginality from Perspective
of Sustainability and Development
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StankoPelc Miha Koderman
Faculty of Education Faculty of Humanities
University of Primorska University of Primorska
Koper Koper
Slovenia Slovenia
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Preface
Geographicalmarginalityasaconceptualframeworkfortheresearchofmultifaceted
problemsevolvingfromhumanimpactonnatureandviceversaisrelativelynewand
itsrelevanceneedstobefurtherdiscussedinfuture.Sustainability,or,tobeprecise,
theabsenceofit,hasmanylinkswithmarginalityandmarginalization.Bothterms
aretocertainextentambiguousastheyareverywidelyused.Thatmakesthetopicof
relationship between marginality and sustainability even more relevant. Future
developmentshouldinallareasonlybesustainable.Actually,ifthedevelopmentis
not sustainable, it should not be named development because this term by the
definitioninvolvesnotjustquantitativecomponent(growth),butincludesqualitative
aspects, too. There cannot be any improvement in terms of quality if the growth
in production neglects the impact of this development on the quality of life of
future generations. Following the path of short-term profit maximization on the
account offuture generations means marginalization of our descendants and limi-
tationoftheirprospectsforlong-termsurvival.However,unsustainabilityisnotonly
a driver of long-term marginalization. Unsustainable economic practices are most
commoninthoseareasoftheworldwheretheawarenessofenvironmentalissuesis
still low and the need for any kind of sources of income is high. Multinational
companiesarealwaysmovingtheiroperationsinthedirectionofthecheapestlabour
and the lowest environmental restrictions, thus marginalizing the countries where
theyopentheiroftenenvironmentallyoffensivebranchesandemploytheirlowpaid
workers that are working hard and have long working hours. Employees in the
countries that used to host their branches before they moved them elsewhere are
marginalized as well, as they become jobless. Therefore even better developed
countrieswithamuchhigherpublicawarenessofenvironmentalissuesanddeclared
orientation towards sustainable development often implement dubious develop-
mentalsolutions.AspermanentgrowthoftheGDPissoextremelyimportantissue
for politicians that work on four years re-election cycles, they are often giving
priority to the solutions that result in short-term effects rather than those that will
give theresults sometime in thefar future.
Unfortunately, systematic studies of marginality are rare and to come to some
conclusion we have to use the insights given by many different partial studies that
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often use different approaches and deal with many different topics. What we try to
find in the variety of these studies are different drivers of marginalization. In this
third book of the series Perspectives on Geographical Marginality we are trying to
reveal different aspects and different drivers of marginalization. The authors
prepared their chapters on the basis of their papers presented at the last two con-
ferences of the International Geographical Union’s commission C12.29
Marginalization,GlobalizationandRegionalandLocalResponses,heldin2015in
Agri (Turkey) and in 2016 in Ljubljana, Koper and Maribor (Slovenia). The last
conferencefocusedonsustainabilityandthisisthereasonwhythebookstartswith
more nature oriented topics, followed by the insights into different roles that
tourism plays in (de)marginalization process, drivers related to ethnicity and other
predominantly economic topics.
We would like to express our appreciation to all the chapter authors who have
contributedawidevarietyofinterestingtopicsthatenableustogetbetterinsightto
marginality from many different perspectives.
Koper, Slovenia Stanko Pelc
Miha Koderman
Contents
Part I Introduction
1 Drivers of Marginalization from Different Perspectives. ..... .... 3
Stanko Pelc
Part II Nature as Socially Induced Factor of Marginalization
2 Marginality and Sustainability. .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 31
Stanko Pelc
3 Land UseChangesinRelationtoSelectedPhysicalGeographical
Features from the Viewpoint of Marginalization—The Case
of Svečinske Gorice, Slovenia.. .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 43
Igor Žiberna
4 Natural Disasters and Less Developed Countries .. .... ..... .... 59
Matija Zorn
5 Climate Change Effects on Mountain Regions Marginalized
by Socio-Economic Transformation—The Case of North
Caucasus . .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 79
Vera Vinogradova, Raisa Gracheva and Elena Belonovskaya
Part III Tourism as a Developmental Opportunity of Marginal
Regions
6 TheRoleofTourisminSustainableDevelopmentofMountainous
Border Region—The Case of Bovec Municipality, Slovenia... .... 93
Urška Trček and Miha Koderman
7 The Ibiza’s Nightlife as a Bend from Marginalization
to Tourism Centrality... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 109
Hugo Capellà i Miternique
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8 Cuban Tourism—The Marginalized Communist Country’s
First Step Towards Sustainable Development. .... .... ..... .... 119
Armand Faganel and Anita Trnavčevič
Part IV Ethnic Groups Between Marginality and Inclusion
9 Minorities—An Expression of Diversity and an Exercise
in Tolerance... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 131
Walter Leimgruber
10 Resettlement of Orang Asli (Aborigines) in Malaysia—
Marginalization or Demarginalization of an Ethnic Group ... .... 145
Jamalunlaili Abdullah
11 Roma,SocialExclusionandRomaniSettlementsasMarginalized
Place: The Case of Loke. ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 157
Alenka Janko Spreizer
12 The Planned Process of Spatial Integration of Roma Settlements
in Slovenia—The Way to Deghettoization and
Demarginalization?. .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 169
Jernej Zupančič
13 Multiculturalism and Ethnographic Museums in Israel:
The Case of a Regional Bedouin Museum.... .... .... ..... .... 179
Havatzelet Yahel, Ruth Kark and Noam Perry
14 RecognitionPolicy ofBedouinVillages inIsrael,Marginalization
and the Ethic of Bio-cultural Diversity .. .... .... .... ..... .... 201
Avinoam Meir
Part V Possible Drivers of Marginalization from Different
Perspectives
15 Migration, Education and Marginality: Networks
and Strategies in the Pacific Islands. .... .... .... .... ..... .... 215
John Overton and Warwick E. Murray
16 Demarginalization and Church Property: The Case
of Czechia .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 235
Tomáš Havlíček
17 Local Self-government Reforms in Slovenia: Discourse
on Centrality and Peripherality .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 243
Janez Nared
18 Regional Disparities in Sustainable Development
of Slovenia—Cohesion or Marginalization?... .... .... ..... .... 257
Katja Vintar Mally
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19 Marginalization of Tea Estates in Sri Lanka in the Changing
Global and National Context .. .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 271
Daichi Kohmoto
20 Pond Management System Among Small Farmers in Khulna,
Bangladesh.... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 295
Firuza Begham Mustafa
21 Marginalization Between Border and Metropolis: Drivers
of Socio-Spatial Change in Post-socialist Croatia .. .... ..... .... 313
Marin Cvitanović and Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš
Part VI Conclusions
22 (De)Marginalization, Development and Sustainability:
Brief Reflection of the Variety of Findings
and Views Presented.... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 331
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