Globalization and Marginality in Geographical Space : Political, Economic, and Social Issues of Development at the Dawn of a New Millennium

by Jussila, Heikki; Majoral, Roser; Delgado-Cravidao, Fernanda

• ISBN13: 9780754614760
• ISBN10: 075461476X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

It is widely assumed that marginal areas are threatened, both economically and socially by the current force of globalization. This volume provides a truly global overview on the actual effects that economic globalization has on the development of marginal and critical regions. A team of leading specialists provide a geographical perspective to these issues illustrating their theoretical arguments with a wide range of empirical studies from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Australia.Opening with a critical analysis of globalization from various theoretical perspectives, the book looks at economic importance, the role of transnationals and nation blocs and highlights how geographical research can contribute significantly to the understanding of the effects policies and politics of globalization have on the more marginal areas of the world. It then proceeds to examine the policy aspects of globalization analyzing different policy options and the implementation of these policies on specific regions. It stresses that in many cases the hidden indirect impacts may in the long run have more important effects on development than the direct impacts which are taken into account.This collection does not, in spite of the problem all marginal areas are faced with, point to destitution of these regions, but it does argue that more accurate information is required in order to understand the various direct and indirect effects of globalization .

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	xiii
List of Contributors	xvii
Preface	xix
Introduction	1	(6)
Heikki Jussila
Roser Majoral
PART 1 - EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION
Globalization, deregulation, marginalization: Where are we at the end of the millennium?	7	(17)
Walter Leimgruber
Globalization and economic marginalization: North-South differences	24	(13)
Lawrence M. Sommers
Assefa Mehretu
Bruce WM. Pigozzi
Great Plains settlement: Globalization and deregulation	37	(16)
J. Clark Archer
Richard E. Lonsdale
Southern Patagonia facing globalization	53	(8)
Maria Eugenia Cepparo de Grosso
Managing integration and marginalization for the New Europe	61	(18)
Henri Goverde
PART 2 - POLICIES AND POLITICS OF CHANGE
A Northern dimension for the European Union: Background and proposals	79	(11)
Toivo Muilu
Rural Northern Finland and EU-membership	90	(13)
Matti Hakkila
The Tuscany observatory of rural society development: A policy tool against spatial and information marginalization	103	(18)
Maria Andreoli
Francesco Di Iacovo
Heikki Jussila
Vittorio Tellarini
The deep rural context and micro-regional changes in Southern Portugal	121	(14)
Luis Moreno
Unforeseen regional effects as a result of corporatization of government administrative bodies	135	(10)
Paul Olav Berg
Consequences of regulation and deregulation in marginal and critical economies of the U.S. Pacific Northwest	145	(14)
Steven Kale
Deregulation and marginality: New public policies and new approaches to the planning of tourism	159	(16)
Francisco Lopez-Palomeque
PART 3 - FROM ECONOMIC TO SOCIAL ISSUES
From economic marginality to the problems of `quality of life'	175	(18)
Maria Andreoli
Vincenzina Colosimo
Heikki Jussila
The `old' and `new' forms of inequality: The case of Portugal	193	(12)
Sandra Marques
Fernanda Delgado-Cravidao
Mill town without its mills: Preliminary assessment of the consequences of industrial abandonment	205	(10)
William R. Stanley
Demographic factors contributing to regional imbalances in Spain	215	(15)
Dolores Sanchez-Aguilera
Roser Majoral
Social neighbourhoods in peripheries: A Finnish-Swedish comparison	230	(18)
Jarmo Rusanen
Toivo Muilu
Alfred Colpaert
Arvo Naukkarinen
People who were not there but are now! Aboriginality in Tasmania	248	(19)
Peter Scott
Child labour, the reverse of economic globalization in peripheral regions	267	(12)
Lucilia Caetano
The plight of women in the margins of rural life in Africa: The case of Zimbabwe	279	(18)
Assefa Mehretu
Chris Mutambirwa
Jane Mutambirwa
PART 4 - CONCLUSIONS AND SUMMARY
Conclusions and summary	297
Heikki Jussila
Roser Majoral