Marginality has long been regarded as a condition of disadvantage, capturing the precarious situation of individuals or groups living at the edges of society, excluded from economic, political, or cultural resources. Yet, marginality can also be understood as a space of possibility, where rules can be bent, surveillance weakened, and alternative ways of belonging and resisting are negotiated. Rather than only connoting exclusion, marginality may signal transgression, creativity, and opportunity. In socialist and dictatorial contexts in particular, the margins often became paradoxical sites: simultaneously threatening to the regime’s authority and enabling new forms of grassroots resistance, everyday practices of [...]