Kuipers rightly claims that his findings have implications for studies of linguistic shift and sociocultural
marginality. "Linguistic ideology" has to be regarded as a key concept for such studies.
We noted above that many of the social composition variables which correlate strongly with turnout are themselves interrelated and the same is true of
marginality and 'scope for tactical voting'.
Through such analyses Harper's chapters unpack the "multitude of different subject positions that any given individual might occupy, even simultaneously" (164) and in doing so, go a long way toward achieving his objective, as stated in the introduction: to show that any adequate theory of postmodern subjectivity requires a complex analysis of various forms of social
marginality (29).
The fact that the phenomena of peripherality and
marginality are complex urges researchers to study the problem from a multidisciplinary perspective.
If post-colonialism is a language which grasps the global and the local by understanding the complexities of imperial relationship, a study of the issue of
marginality in the Ibis trilogy is alone sufficient to show that this language of post-colonialism is ever alive as it can endearingly embrace fictionality, historicity, and material reality by virtue of its inclusive interrogation, immaculate investigation and ingenious imagination.
Marginality is thus conceived as spatial: Bankovskaya (2014) notes that "Park comes to his notion of the 'marginal man'...
To do so, it first surveys the meanings of
marginality in the three reviewed works, and then discusses common themes: the politics of
marginality (including the role of African states), marginalization as the outcome of a diversity of trajectories, and the symbolic construction of
marginality as a form of belonging.
Not only have many of us experienced
marginality personally and professionally, but also our work in the writing center frequently brings us face-to-face with students who may also feel marginal.
The notion of
marginality has been used by liberation theologians to denote the location of the marginalized and the excluded.
Performance, Theater, and Society in Contemporary Nicaragua: Spectacles of Gender, Sexuality, and
MarginalityYouth, Education, and
Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is an anthology of scholarly essays by learned authors scrutinizing the problems faced by young people who mare marginalized in schools - whether due to ethnicity, poverty, sexual orientation, or other factors.