Thematic villages as the example of neo-endogenous local development in rural areas
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2019
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This paper is focused on a set of activities undertaken by the local community of peripherally located Polish village and their various cultural, economic and landscape effects. The selected village of Masłomęcz (Lubelskie Voivodeship) is one of over 50 active thematic villages in Poland and well presents the problem of post-war settlement of people from various parts of the country and the long process of their adjustment to the new living environment. The paper is based on quantitative and qualitative data gathered both infield (observation, individual in-depth interviews, focus group, research walk) and along the desk research (the study of literature, documents on local development strategies). The multithreaded analysis in a local scale enabled to present the anatomy of undertaken activities in the scope of the Theory of Change framework. Thematic village of Goths in Masłomęcz presented as the example of neo-endogenous local development in rural areas of Poland is one of the 33 case studies analyzed along the Horizon 2020 Framework RELOCAL Project.
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Thematic Village, local development, rural areas, Theory of Change