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Living on a (thin) margin

Sat, 03/19/2011 - 06:12 — De-Registered User

Tropentag 2011 will have a focus on development on the margin. Watching the images and the video from Japan calls for a re-definition of our perspective on margin. There is no nation more modern and more organised than Japan, nevertheless the thinness of the edge on which modernity lives was revealed in the most striking way. Photo: Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP/Getty Images Photo: Kyodo/Reuters Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters