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 Unpublished paper.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 Unpublished Paper.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