1 The action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure. The principle that binds together the present UK government’s (and indeed Europe’s) social policy is the reduction in the number of people and places experiencing ‘social exclusion’ from mainstream societal activities and the promotion of ‘social inclusion’ into these activities (Social Exclusion Unit 2001), and the Sustainable Development Commission promotes social inclusion and environmental justice (SDC 2002). Stewart in P. Askonas and A. Stewart, eds (2000) thinks that an understanding of social inclusion involves ‘the recognition and acceptance of the historically situated and therefore contingent character of prevailing institutional realizations of justice and concomitantly privileged conceptions of the good life obtaining at any point in time’. Gray in Askonas and Stewart (op. cit.) argues that the disruption of solidaristic social formations (particularly states) as a consequence of economic globalization renders any meaningful form of social inclusion impossible. Nonetheless, Mitchell (2011) AAAG 101, 2 shows the way Marseille’s city politicians have worked directly with both the representatives of major ethnic and religious groups and with the major capitalist players in the city, including elite entrepreneurs and members of the local mafia, to promote inclusion, based on ethnic ties, trust, and reciprocity, in marked contrast to Paris. I. M. Young (2000) insists that demographic practices depend on inclusion. See also Holt (2008) PHG 32, 2.
2 A solid, liquid, or gaseous foreign body enclosed in a mineral or rock. Melt inclusions are small parcels of melt(s)—most are less than 0.0001016 cm across—that are entrapped by crystals growing in the magmas and eventually forming igneous rocks.