The problem with this notion of "a price of progress" is that it becomes self-serving by failing to take into account the non-enfranchisement and marginalisation of the people at the receiving end.
Meanwhile, Joseph Kony, the leader of the LRA, had tapped into local anger and feelings of marginalisation before his own brand of brutality, which included cutting off hands, lips and noses of his victims and forcing child abductees to murder their families, turned many of his natural supporters against him.
Amidst a wealth of discussion emerge a number of crucial points, especially the extension of the marginalisation of pastoralists in the modern world back into considerations of the past, assumptions on the relationship between mobility and socio-political organisation, and the problems with the applications of concepts of 'tribe' and 'state' in archaeological theory.
This approach has important implications for public health, as it provides not only a strong indicator of the level of dissatisfaction within some of London's more disadvantaged neighbourhoods, but also identifies a need for policies that are grounded in cross-disciplinary research into the relationship between health, 'wellbeing' and experiences of marginalisation among urban populations.
We need to dissect the complex cocktail of grievances that has brought us this rough climate in the first place: the marginalisation of majorities whose anger, fear and perceived powerlessness is being transformed into greed, bitterness and hatred.
In an exhaustive 2012 report into the conflict in southern Thailand, the International Crisis Group highlighted the "marginalisation of [deep south] culture, history, religion and language" as a major force fuelling the violence.
Apoptotic events were identified by the morphological parameters of condensation and marginalisation of the nuclear chromatin, cell shrinking, and fragmentation of the cell into apoptotic bodies, as previously reported (Hardman et al, 1999a).
Yet men's greater willingness to listen to other men also reflects men's homosocial investment in evaluation by male peers and the social marginalisation of women's voices and experiences, and both can feed indirectly into violence against women (Schwartz and DeKeseredy 1997).
The study says the recent land grabs fall into an old and familiar pattern that has resulted in the marginalisation of Sri Lanka's Tamil population through violence, pogroms, repressive laws and a "government-orchestrated colonisation of the northern and eastern parts" of the island, traditionally the Tamils' homeland.
This was, for example, the case in our study of the recruitment of minority ethnic participants into asthma research (Table 1) as our earlier work had demonstrated the marginalisation of minority ethnic people with asthma, despite evidence of disproportionate asthma morbidity[ 14, 15].
Marginalisation of the game in Britain and France was ignored.
