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DISCUSSING MARGINALITY: A REFLECTION FROM THE URBAN AND SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY PERSPECTIVE
The paper focuses on the term marginality and its use in social sciences and in human geography in particular. Quite surprisingly, geographical knowledge seems not very committed to define precisely the concept of marginality, probably because of the ...
Fabio Amato
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Matthew as marginal scribe in an advanced agrarian society
Analysis of 22 references to scribes in the Gospel of Matthew shows that a few of them are positive comments and that the author himself was a scribe. What type of scribe was he and how can we clarify his social context?
D.C. Duling
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The Problem of Infra-Marginality in Outcome Tests for Discrimination [PDF]
In the course of conducting traffic stops, officers have discretion to search motorists for drugs, weapons, and other contraband. There is concern that these search decisions are prone to racial bias, but it has proven difficult to rigorously assess ...
Camelia Simoiu +2 more
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Living Compound Marginality: Experiences of a Japanese Muslim Woman
The present article discusses the ways in which ethnic Japanese Muslim women are perceived and treated in contemporary Japanese society, through a case study of one Japanese female convert.
Kieko Obuse
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Europe 2020 Strategy and New Policies for Marginal Areas [PDF]
Marginality should be seen as an a asset rather than a liability for a region or a community. Marginality reflects a strategy of economic development, and this paper also seeks institutional means for championing marginality over ...
PROVENZANO, Vincenzo +1 more
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Recognition in urban climate justice: marginality and exclusion of migrants in Indian cities
This paper explores the recognitional dimensions of urban climate change justice in a development context. Through the lens of migrants in the Indian cities of Bengaluru and Surat, we highlight how experiences of environmental marginality can be ...
E. Chu, Kavya Michael
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To maximize or not to maximize the free energy of glassy systems, !=? [PDF]
The static free energy of glassy systems can be expressed in terms of the Parisi order parameter function. When this function has a discontinuity, the location of the step is determined by maximizing the free energy.
A. Crisanti +16 more
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Marginal contributions and externalities in the value [PDF]
For games in partition function form, we explore the implications of distinguishing between the concepts of intrinsic marginal contributions and externalities.
Clippel, Geoffroy de, Serrano, Roberto
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Enseigner les marges dans le secondaire : quelle place au politique ?
Marginal space is teaching throughout the curriculum of geography in secondary school. The marginality of the spaces is often obscured or truncated, favoring socio-economic dimensions on the spatial dimension.
Caroline Leininger-Frézal
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Village economies and the structure of extended family networks [PDF]
This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, we construct within-village extended family networks in 504 poor ...
Angelucci, M. +3 more
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