Privatizace v zemědělství a obnova venkova / Privatization in Agriculture and Rural Regeneration

• Published in: Sociologický časopis 1995-12, Vol.31 (4), p.449-462
• Main Author: HUDEČKOVÁ, HELENA
• Format: Article
• Language: cze
• ISSN: 0038-0288

The concept of sustainable development includes the new paradigm of how to perceive the rural world in its divergence and convergence with the urban world. The Central and Eastern European countries reveal another dimension - the intervention of the collectivistic model of organizing society into rural development. The process of collectivization in the Czech Republic accelerated the industrialization, while rather slowing down the urbanization in the countryside. The village was drawn closer to the town through the industrialization of the economy and the democratization of culture. However, the all-encompassing centralization made the countryside almost entirely dependent on towns. Today the question emerges -does the politically proclaimed and economically implemented liberalization provide the countryside with the possibility of regeneration? The contemporary transformation of the countryside indicates the prevalence of differential processes - one part of rural settlements is threatened with extinction, another part will join the global homogenization process, although this means forfeiting rurality. Therefore the question concerning the possibility of saving the rural community in a viable modern form should be posed. The contemporary political and economic climate in the Czech Republic, however, does not favour this third alternative.