The aim of the article is to describe the processes of local communities mobilization in the face of (small) schools liquidation in the rural areas. The author focuses on those cases of local activism which resulted in the ...

The aim of this paper is to characterize the image of counterurbanization in Poland on the example of “Far from the city” television reports broadcast by the Domo+ television network in 2015. The analytical method used in ...

In this analysis, based on the content of two handbooks, some considerations concerning ways and areas of rural studies have been considered. Both handbooks have been designed as kinds of global analyses. In fact, both of ...

The social structure of the Polish countryside has deeply changed during the last thirty years because of three co-occurring processes: desagrarisation/depeasantisation, proletarisation, and bourgeoisement/gentrification. ...

The reasons for applying for European Union funds, methods and strategies for implementing educational projects and the types of effects of these initiatives are presented basing on the case study 6 rural municipalities ...

The review article offers a “positive critique” – as it was understood by Max Weber and his followers, like Polish sociologist Stanisław Kozyr-Kowalski among others – of main theses and problems contained in Marek Nowak’s ...

The purpose of this article is to present some of the results of research on the implementation of Rural Renewal Programme in the municipality of Nowosolna in the Lodzkie Voivodeship (the most active unit in the Rural ...

The article analyses the paradigm shift regarding rural development in the EU. Social changes taking place in rural areas, the development of new rural economy as well as globalization process redefines rural developmental ...

The article discusses the issue of relations between non-governmental organizations and representatives of local self-government units (LGUs). The theoretical part presents selected new concepts of territorial self-government ...