TY - JOUR
TI - From Samoobrona (Self-defence) to Agrounia: Rural Social Movements in Poland after 1989
AU - Wenzel, Michał
TI - From Samoobrona (Self-defence) to Agrounia: Rural Social Movements in Poland after 1989
AB - 
	The term “rural social movements” is used in different meanings, so a consistent definition is needed to conceptualize political rural social movements. They are a remnant of the agrarian socio-economic structure. The late and incomplete industrial revolution in Central and Eastern Europe and the incomplete collectivization of agriculture in Poland, compared to other countries of the region, preserved some pre-modern forms of mobilization. The aim of this article is to present the concept of rural social movements and to illustrate it with examples: they are the politics of protest, carried out by Samoobrona and Agrounia. Rural social movements are contrasted with both traditional (old) movements and new social movements. They are located on the sidelines of the main socio-political cleavages, and their actors contest the elites en bloc.

	* Tekst powstał w ramach prac nad projektem OPUS finansowanym przez NCN. Projekt nr 2021/41/B/HS5/00536 „Od Samoobrony do Agrounii. Wiejskie ruchy społeczne po 1989 roku”, realizowany na Wydziale Nauk Społecznych Uniwersytetu SWPS.
VL - 2023
IS - No. 7/2023
PY - 2023
SN - 2543-7046
C1 - 2544-0845
SP - 167
EP - 191
DO - 10.4467/25440845TP.23.009.17522
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/teoria-polityki/article/od-samoobrony-do-agrounii-wiejskie-ruchy-spoleczne-po-1989-roku
KW - social movements
KW - agrarian society
KW - politics of protest
KW - mobilization