Regional opportunity structures: A research agenda to link spatial and social inequalities in rural areas

0568529 - SOÚ 2024 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Bernard, Josef - Steinfuehrer, A. - Klaerner, A. - Keim-Klaerner, S.
Regional opportunity structures: A research agenda to link spatial and social inequalities in rural areas.
Progress in Human Geography. Roč. 47, č. 1 (2023), s. 103-123. ISSN 0309-1325. E-ISSN 1477-0288
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GC18-05704J
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : agency * labour market * public and private services * regional opportunity structures * rural regions * social inequalities * spatial inequalities
OECD category: Sociology
Impact factor: 7.1, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03091325221139980

This paper introduces and discusses regional opportunity structures as a concept for analysing the interlinkages between structural conditions in space, social inequalities, and people's agency, with a focus on non-metropolitan areas. The concept adds value in the following ways: (1) it emphasises the regional scale as an important spatial context of access to opportunities, (2) it accounts for the complexity of the regional context, which provides a plethora of opportunities, (3) it recognises the interdependencies of regional effects and other drivers of inequality, and (4) it takes the regional level seriously as a background of the agency of a region's inhabitants.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0339959