Social Capital Management. A Case Study of the Town of Racibórz

• Authors: Robert Geisler , Michał Potracki
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

For many years, social capital has been the subject of research in various areas and social environments. What is worth diagnosing is not so much its functioning or formation, but its management, i.e. deliberate development aimed at achieving individual or collective benefits. The cultural borderland region of the Racibórz area, especially the town, is a good case for an analysis of such phenomena, because, over the centuries, the town has been part of various administrative and economic regimes and thus has developed forms of social capital independent of state structures. The main research questions in this paper are the following: What remains of them today? Are they subject to management processes?

Keywords

EN

border areas; borderlands; social capital; public management; local development

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Opolski, Instytut Politologii
• Journal: Border and Regional Studies
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 69-89

Dates

published

2021-07-12

Contributors

author

Robert Geisler

• University of Opole

author

Michał Potracki

• University of Opole

Identifiers

DOI

10.25167/brs3805