This book combines approaches from the design disciplines, humanities, and social sciences to foster interdisciplinary engagement across geographies around the identities embodied in and of peripheries. Peripheral communities bear human faces and names, necessitating specific modes of inquiry and commitments that prioritize lived human experience and cultura' expression. I lerce, the peripheries of this book area question, nota given, the answers to are contingent forms assemblea a round embodied identities. Peripheries a re urban fringes, periphery countries in the modem world-system, Indigenous lands, occupied territories, or the peripheries of authoritative knowledge, among others. No forni can exist out-side historical relations of power enacted through knowledge, political structures, laws, and regulations.