Abstract
The main goal of this chapter is to reflect on the different insights and overviews of the concept of marginality, its problems and how it is applied to Malargüe. It analyzes different processes, which are deeply related to environmental, socio-economic, cultural and political issues. Also, it considers the correlation between local territorial dynamics and provincial, national and international scales of the last decades of the 20th and the early 21st centuries. The topics are linked to structural and circumstantial aspects which have provoked partial policies or recent political decisions regarding local development. This scientific work expresses not only the advances made but also further topics to study or solve. The advances make reference to all the contributions to the concept of marginality in general and of marginality in Malargüe in particular. Also, this analysis wants to motivate future studies of the complex concept of marginality and its implications, as well as further research about different alternatives to face the issue.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
It is important to highlight that, since my first years as a researcher in 1982, research was focused on marginal or peripheral areas of Argentina. In southern Argentina, it centred on pastoral activities and agriculture in small isolated oasis, and fishery in the province of Santa Cruz. In southern Mendoza, in Malargüe, we studied the traditional transhumant herding activity and the very recent industrialization of goat meat and the growing of seed potatoes. In San Rafael (also southern Mendoza), we examined the problems related to olive growing and its marginal and peripheral situation compared to viticulture, the main and most prolific activity in Mendoza. All these investigations have contributed to the topics analyzed in this present article.
References
Capellà Miternique, H. (2010). ¿El margen y la diferencia: un discurso propio? In Cepparo M. E. (Ed.), Rasgos de Marginalidad. Diferentes enfoques y aportes para abordar su problemática. Malargüe, un ejemplo motivador (pp. 73–91). Mendoza: Editorial de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNCuyo.
Cepparo, M. E. (Ed.). (2010a). Rasgos de Marginalidad. Diferentes enfoques y aportes para abordar su problemática. Malargüe, un ejemplo motivador. Mendoza. Editorial de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNCuyo.
Cepparo, M. E. (2010b). La marginalidad. La complejidad del proceso y de la identificación del concepto. In Cepparo M. E. (Ed.), pp. 19–39.
Cepparo, M. E. (2010c). Procesos estructurales y coyunturales vinculados con las dinámicas sociales en áreas marginales. In Cepparo M. E. (Ed.), pp. 239–262.
Cepparo, M. E. (2010d). Malargüe. Condiciones naturales y ciclos socio-económicos. In Cepparo M. E. (Ed.), pp. 93–116.
Cepparo, M. E. (2013). Avances alcanzados y temas pendientes sobre la marginalidad y sus procesos. In M. E. Cepparo, G. Gabrielidis, & E. Prieto (Eds.), pp. 301–314.
Cepparo, M. E., Prieto, E., & Gabrielidis, G. (2010a). Conflictos de un territorio vulnerable para integrarse a la dinámica del siglo XXI. In M. E. Cepparo (Ed.), pp. 215–238.
Cepparo, M. E., Prieto, E., & Gabrielidis, G. (2010b). El Plan Estratégico Malargüe y sus iniciativas para el ámbito rural. In M. E. Cepparo (Ed.), pp. 193–213.
Cepparo, M. E., Gabrielidis, G., & Prieto, E. (Eds.). (2013). Rasgos de marginalidad. Diferentes enfoques y aportes para abordar su problemática. Malargüe, un ejemplo motivador. Segunda Parte, Mendoza, Editorial de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNCuyo.
Duquesnoy, M. (2013). El otro discriminado: minorías subordinadas, estigmatización cultural, categorización social. Aportación desde la antropología. In M. E. Cepparo, G. Gabrielidis, & E. Prieto (Eds.), pp. 147–170.
Leimgruber, W. (2010). Marginality and development in the 21st century. Issues of human rights and solidarity. In Cepparo M. E. (Ed.), Rasgos de Marginalidad. Diferentes enfoques y aportes para abordar su problemática. Malargüe, un ejemplo motivador (pp. 41–60). Mendoza: Editorial de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNCuyo.
Philo, C. (1992). Neglected rural geographies: A review. Journal of Rural Studies, 8(2), 193–207, quoted in Murdoch, J., & Pratt, A. (1993) Rural studies: Modernism, postmodernism and the “post rural”. Journal of Rural Studies, 9(4).
Valenzuela, C. (2007). Los desafíos para el desarrollo de áreas rurales marginales. Una propuesta de inclusión productiva para los sectores agrícolas tradicionales del Nordeste Argentino. Scripta Nova. Revista Electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, XI, núm. 245 (55).
Wacquant, L. (2010). Castigar a los pobres: el gobierno neoliberal de la inseguridad social. Barcelona: Gedisa.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Cepparo, M.E. (2019). Advances in Marginality Studies in Southern Mendoza, Argentina. In: Leimgruber, W., Chang, Cy. (eds) Rural Areas Between Regional Needs and Global Challenges. Perspectives on Geographical Marginality, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04393-3_9
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04393-3_9
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-04392-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-04393-3
eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)