Kick-off meeting “Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities”

Are spatial inequalities within nation states a risk to social cohesion? Do people in disadvantaged regions feel "left behind" of economic prosperity and neglected by national governments? Do people react with discontent and protest?

These questions were the focus of the kick-off event of the research project "Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities", which took place at the Thünen Institute on May 11 and 12, 2023. The project is a cooperation of the Thünen Institute of Rural Studies, the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (https://www.soc.cas.cz/en) and the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization of the Polish Academy of Sciences (https://www.igipz.pan.pl/home_en.html).