Agriculture, Communities, and New Social Movements: East European Ruralities in the Process of Restructuring

Autor/inn/en	Gorlach, Krzysztof; Lostak, Michal; Mooney, Patrick H.
Titel	Agriculture, Communities, and New Social Movements: East European Ruralities in the Process of Restructuring
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 24 (2008) 2, S.161-171 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2007.12.003
Schlagwörter	Models; Democracy; Social Sciences; Rural Areas; Foreign Countries; Social Action; Activism; Agriculture; Economic Change; Social Systems; European History; Social Change; Czech Republic; Hungary; Poland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analogiemodell; Demokratie; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ausland; Soziales Handeln; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Landwirtschaft; Ökonomischer Wandel; Social system; Soziales System; Sozialer Wandel; Tschechische Republik; Ungarn; Polen
Abstract	This paper examines the usefulness of the new social movements (NSMs) paradigm in the changing context of East European post-communist societies and their agricultural systems and rural communities. Starting with statements formulated in Western sociology in the context of Western democratic societies about NSMs as a protest against modernity, the paper analyses the role of such movements in the still modernizing Eastern European reality. The first part of the paper briefly examines some basic elements of the NSMs paradigm in European and American social science. The goal of this section is not only to identify the basic characteristics of NSMs, but also to identify the typical frames used by them. The second part of the paper focuses on the presence of NSMs in the communist era. Drawing on the idea of NSMs as indicators of a "post-materialist shift" as well as of "anti-establishment" and "pro-participatory democracy", the paper examines the frames of democratic opposition in Eastern Europe before 1989. The final part of the paper considers several selected examples from Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to explore the role of NSMs in the process of shaping new ruralities during the post-communist transformation. (Author).
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