Székelyföldi falvak: periferizálódás és kihívások

Abstract

The study is related to a research project carried out in cooperation between the Institute of Development and the Centre for Regional and Anthropological Research (KAM), which deals with the situation of settlements in Szeklerland that do not have the status of a settlement centre, and the process of peripheralisation of these settlements after 1989. In the research, we have attempted to contextualise the analysis in the literature on the contemporary changes in rural areas. The research relies to a large extent on previous analyses carried out at the Institute (see, not least, the group DOMUS Programmes, each of which focused on an aspect of the functioning of rural areas). After outlining the literature context on the transformation of rural areas, this paper briefly describes the research and results in Szeklerland.