“Spaces in the Making:” Peripheralization and Spatial injustice in Southern Yemen

Abstract

By using the concept of peripheralization as defined by Fischer-Tahir and Naumann (2013), I examine how processes of change in economy, demography, political decision-making, and socio-cultural norms and values have marginalized southern Yemen after 1990, and especially after the war of 1994. I will argue that politically produced spatial injustice has strengthened the desire for southern Yemeni independence.

Keywords

• peripheralization
• spatial injustice
• Southern Movement
• Southern Yemen