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Introduction: marginalisation in law, policy and society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2022

David Gurnham
David Gurnham*
Affiliation:
School of Law, University of Southampton, UK
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: D.gurnham@soton.ac.uk
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Abstract

Introducing our Special Issue on marginalisation, this paper considers some of the challenges that this topic poses for legal scholars. The paper identifies that these challenges arise principally from the ambivalence of ‘marginalisation’ itself: at once an idea so broad that it arguably underpins the bulk of legal research (and socio-legal research in particular), but at the same time an idea that in practice too often quickly gives way to various other neighbouring ones: disadvantage, discrimination, disempowerment, exclusion, inequality, silencing, stigmatisation, victimisation and so on. This paper considers this ambivalence and traces etymological roots (and routes) by which we understand the margin, the marginalised and marginalisation.

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marginalisationmarginalisemarginalmarginlaw and policy
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Special Issue Introduction
Information
International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 18 , Special Issue 1: Marginalisation in Law, Policy and Society , March 2022 , pp. 1 - 9
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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