[Changing Ruralities: Rural Realities in Transylvania (Kriza Books, 45)] Változó ruralitások. A vidékiség mai formái (Kriza Könyvek, 45.)

Jakab Albert Zsolt – Vajda András (eds.)


[Changing Ruralities: Rural Realities in Transylvania (Kriza Books, 45)] Változó ruralitások. A vidékiség mai formái (Kriza Könyvek, 45.)


2019

The present volume presents a selection of the material of a conference on rurality in Transylvania organized in 2018. The conference desired to synthesize the research results on the Transylvanian rural area and rurality. The presentations aimed to understand how the communities of certain areas being on different stages of development have lived and interpreted the changes of the near past, what situations – similarities and divergences – were resulted by these changes on the level of everyday life, social relations and economic strategies.

Therefore the presentations of the conference desired to focus on three dimensions of changing ruralities: 1. the cultural dimension: identity, keeping tradition, loosing tradition, patrimonization, globalization; 2. the social dimension: modified systems of relations, mobility of the population, new relation strategies, respectively new – casually virtual – forms of community; 3. the economic dimension: transformation of rural agriculture, project-based developments, economical migration, other individual and communal strategies.