Karasz, D. P., Homberger, A., & Güntner, S. A. (2025). Working definition of ‘left behindness’ as a form of territorial inequality (O. Jubany, M. Roiha, & M. Roiha, Eds.). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/215424
left behind places; territorial inequality; spatial planning
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Abstract:
This working paper is an output produced by the EXIT project – Exploring sustainable strategies to
counteract territorial inequalities from an intersectional approach – (2022-2025). It outlines the working definition used by the EXIT project of 'left behindness'. The concept of 'left behindness' surfaced in academic literature as a rather vague and open concept, depicting a relational phenomenon of territorial inequality between centres and
peripheries but lacks a precise definition. The EXIT Project understand ‘left behindness’
as a form of territorial inequality that emerges as a dialectic relationship between a
peripheral experience in concrete locations on the one hand and political discourses as well
as the place-specific indicators and employment of policy instruments on the other.
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Project title:
Exploring Sustainable Strategies to Counteract territorial Inequalities from an Intersectional Approach (EXIT): 101061122 (European Commission)
