Gentrified countryside and non-gentrified countryside: Spatial dimension of the rural gentrification process

Zwęglińska-Gałecka Dominika
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Zwęglińska-Gałecka Dominika: Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Eastern European Countryside, 2022, vol. 28, issue 1, 5-23

Abstract: The subject of the paper is the process of rural gentrification in Poland. In Poland, this process has a special character. It began later than in the West and intensified in the last decade of the twentieth century. It resulted from two parallel processes endogenous and exogenous to the countryside. The rural middle class grew due to an increase in the level of education of the rural population (resulting from the “educational boom” after 1989) since a higher level of education entitles one to occupy a higher position in the social and professional structure. It was accompanied by the settlement of the urban middle class in rural areas. The paper identifies (based on literature and earlier own research) the features of rural gentrification in Poland. Based on them, the level of gentrification of rural communities was indicated, and in turn, the spatial extent of the rural gentrification process in Poland was defined.

Keywords: rural gentrification; gentrified countryside; Poland; rural areas; spatial dimension; middle class (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.12775/eec.2022.001

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