Possibilities and Forms of Adaptation of Socially and Economically Excluded Inhabitants Living in Town Outskirts into the Majority Society (an example from Trnava)

• Authors: Martina Bocánová

Title variants

SK

Možnosti a formy adaptácie sociálne a ekonomicky vylúčeného obyvateľstva na periférii mesta do majoritnej spoločnosti (na príklade Trnavy)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The study deals with the theme of town outskirts as a space where the socially, economically and otherwise handicapped inhabitants cumulate, and it uses the town of Trnava as an example. The study also analyses the possibilities and ways to convert that space into a locality of a different quality. The first section introduces the Kopánka location that was perceived as an outskirts in the first half of the 20th century. There used to live people there who were handicapped due to the problems based on their extreme poverty, and a closed group of Bulgarians who worked as farmers. Another large group included people who moved in from mountainous regions of Orava where they lost their homes when the Orava dam was built. The study highlights the factors which allowed the particular groups to cooperate and create models that gradually changed the character of that town district. In the conclusion, the author describes and analyses the problems in such a type of space, she points out the life and its typical problems in a socially excluded location as well as the processes of adaptation, becoming closer to majority, dynamical changes within that location and its gradual integration into the life of majority as an equal partner.

Keywords

EN

Exclusion; poverty; marginalization; town; segregation; social and economic exclusion; Trnava

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY
• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 114 - 127

Contributors

author

Martina Bocánová