title: Conclusion
abstract: Peripheries are the places of learning and unlearning that have to be sought; going out to the peripheries does not simply happen. It is the result of a decision, a commitment. Looking at a case study and a series of interviews from the Connemara region in West Ireland, we can learn about the complexities of living at geographical and partially structural peripheries. The peripheral area has also become a stage where globalization is enacted or at least felt. Two interesting windows into the qua