This collection of essays in honour of Professor Leo Granberg presents fourteen scholarly contributions to rural studies as well as questions of economical and social transition in Finland and Central East Europe. The collection is bilingual, in Finnish and English.
Essays dedicated to Finnish rural motifs cover a wide spectrum. The first chapter reveals the impact of the Great Depression in the 1930s on the agricultural production in Southern Ostrobothnia, the second the commercialisation of Finnish agriculture in the 19th century. Further chapters deal with the remote areas as open spaces of hope, with the rise of a new sense of local identification, with the history of Finnish rural studies and co-operative organisations as a form of social innovation.
As for European developments, Vera Majerova discloses metamorphoses of the rural sociology in the Czech Republic, Katalin Kovacs the rural area transformation in Hungary, while Mariana Draganova focuses on Bulgaria. Jouko Nikula discusses plot farming in post-Soviet Russia and Estonia, whereas Pawel Starosta feeling of public safety.
Contributors:
Ilkka Alanen
Maria Draganova
Klaus Helkama
Seppo Knuuttila
Katalin Kovacs
Tapani Köppä
Vera Majerova
Ludger Müller-Wille
Jouko Nikula
Matti Peltonen
Anna-Maija Pirttilä- Backman
Olli Poropudas
Pertti Rannikko
Pirjo Siiskonen
Pawel Starosta
Talis Tisenkopfs
Contents
JOUKO NIKULA
Instead of Introduction 9
MATTI PELTONEN
Pula ja Pohjanmaa - Etelä-Pohjanmaan maatalous 1930-1uvun
talouspulan aikana 16
OLLI POROPUDAS
Keskustelua Suomen maatalouden kaupallistumisesta
1800-1uvulla - pura ja kokoa 35
SEPPO KNUUTTILA & PERTTI RANNIKKO
Syrjäinen maaseutu avoimina toivon tiloina 49
KLAUS HELKAMA, EERIKA FINELL &
ANNA-MAIJA PIRTTILA-BACKMAN
A New Sense of Community? Changes in Values and
Local Identification at Pyhtää 1993-2007 63
PIRJO SIISKONEN
Suomalaisen maaseutututkimuksen kehittymisen juonteita 76
TAPANI KÖPPÄ
Yhteistoiminnan evoluutio ja osuustoiminta sosiaalisena innovaationa 95
MAJEROVA
Metamorphoses of Rural Sociology during the Times:
Czech Case of Iterative Renewal 113
KATALIN KOVACS
The Transforming Hungarian Countryside: Processes,
Development Needs and Tools 137
JOUKO NIKULA
Plot Farming: a Hobby or a Basis for Evolution of Family Farming? 161
MARIANA DRAGANOVA
Bulgaria's Rural Areas: a View on the Development
Approaches and Practices 179
PAWEL STAROSTA
Feeling of Public Safety in Rural and Small Town
Communities of Eastern Europe and French Canada 191
LUDGER MÜLLER-WILLE
Demographic Change and Human Occupancy
in Sapmi (Finland) in the 1960s 200
TALIS TISENKOPFS
Oh, Blessed Ones. The Sixties Generation
Whose Longings Transformed the World 209
ILKKA ALANEN
Shokkiterapian sosiologista arvostelua 218
Contributors 233
Aleksanteri Series 235
