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Project
Changing Living Conditions in Rural Areas
Changing Living Conditions in Rural Areas 1952, 1972, 1993, 2012
Starting in 1952, "Changing Living Conditions in Rural Areas" investigates the everyday life and changes thereof in fourteen German villages and their surroundings. Originally 10 west German villages, the study was enlarged to fourteen villages from east and west Germany after reunification in 1992. The 2012 study was a joint research project of seven cooperating institutes, headed by the Thünen Institute of Rural Studies.
Background and Objective
Originating in 1952 out of a growing concern about the "rural exodus" in post-war Germany, the study was eventually repeated every 20 years. This unique empirical project has developed until today, comprising data from more than 60 years. Starting with the 14 villages of the original study, the research area has been successively enlarged with surrounding villages to give sustainability to the project. Today the research villages comprise Bischoffingen and Kusterdingen in Baden-Wurttemberg, Bockholte, Elliehausen, Groß Schneen in Lower Saxony, Falkenberg und Gerhardshofen in Bavaria, Finneland in Saxonia-Anhalt, Freienseen in Hesse, Glasow und Krackow in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania , Ralbitz-Rosenthal in Saxonia, Spessart in Rheinland-Palatinate, Westrup in North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as Badingen, Burgwall, Marienthal, Mildenberg, Ribbeck und Zabelsdorf in Brandenburg. The 2012 research wave tackles recent questions concerning rural development in its variety and ties these results into the broader process of rural transformation within the last decades. Thus the study enables policymaking appropriate to varied local situations and can show how varied and complex the ongoing process of rural development in Germany is.
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Approach
Each cooperating institute investigated one specific research area: The situation of children in villages, daily life and housing conditions, women's employment, changing perceptions of landscape, new media use in rural areas, local policy making, and changing care infrastructure. Furthermore the Thünen Institute as head of the project compiles a comprehensive report about the changing living conditions across all fourteen villages studied.
Data and Methods
Analyses are based on qualitative (group discussions, expert-interviews, narrative interviews) and quantitative interviews (local inhabitants, N=3177).
Thünen-Contact
Duration
7.2012 - 12.2015
More Information
Project status:
finished
Publications to the project
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Tuitjer G, Steinführer A (2021) The scientific construction of the village. Framing and practicing rural research in a trend study in Germany, 1952–2015. J Rural Studies 82:489-499, DOI:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.12.006
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Steinführer A (2021) Und das Dorf stirbt doch nicht - es verändert sich : Vom Wandel ländlicher Lebensverhältnisse. Geogr Rundsch 73(5):22-27
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Tuitjer G (2019) "Aber dann, mit Familie, ist einfach das Dorfleben viel, viel besser". Lokale Geschlechterarrangements und räumliche Praktiken. Ländliche Räume Beitr Lokalen Regionalen Entwickl 5:91-104
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Becker H, Tuitjer G (2019) 60 Jahre "Ländliche Lebensverhältnisse im Wandel" - wie eine Langzeitstudie entsteht. Ländliche Räume Beitr Lokalen Regionalen Entwickl 5:79-89
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Tuitjer G (2018) A house of one's own - The Eigenheim within rural women's biographies. J Rural Studies 62:156-163, DOI:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.08.002
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Tuitjer G (2016) "Mütter müssen hier nicht arbeiten" - lokale Geschlechterarrangements zwischen Wandel und Kontinuität. Gender SH 4:124-142
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Becker H, Tuitjer G (2016) Ländliche Lebensverhältnisse im Wandel 1952, 1972, 1993 und 2012. Aus Politik Zeitgesch 66(46-47):17-22
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Tuitjer G (2016) Ländliche Lebensverhältnisse im Wandel 1952, 1972, 1993, 2012 : Vol. 6, Ländliche Arbeitsmärkte: Chancen für Frauen - Frauen als Chance. Braunschweig: Thünen-Institut, 147 p, Thünen Rep 32, Vol. 6, DOI:10.3220/REP1463745839000
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Tuitjer G (2016) References to a rural idyll in the attitudes and self-perceptions of women in rural West Germany. In: Wiest K (ed) Women and migration in rural Europe: labour markets, representations and policies. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 44-62
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Vogt L, Biernatzki R, Kriszan M, Lorleberg W (2015) Ländliche Lebensverhältnisse im Wandel 1952, 1972, 1993, 2012 : Vol. 1, Dörfer als Wohnstandorte. Braunschweig: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, 87 p, Thünen Rep 32, Vol. 1, DOI:10.3220/REP1445502469000
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Helmle S, Kuczera C (2015) Ländliche Lebensverhältnisse im Wandel 1952, 1972, 1993, 2012 : Vol. 2, Typisch ist das vermeintlich Untypische: Alltag von Dorfbewohnern. Braunschweig: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, 101 p, Thünen Rep 32, Vol. 2, DOI:10.3220/REP1445505857000
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Keil A, Röhner C, Jeske I, Godau M, Padberg S, Müller J, Seyfi N, Schraven M (2015) Ländliche Lebensverhältnisse im Wandel 1952, 1972, 1993, 2012 : Vol. 3, Kindheit im Wandel. Braunschweig: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, 205 p, Thünen Rep 32, Vol. 3, DOI:10.3220/REP1445507373000
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Beetz S, Voigt A, Gasch A-C, Rodriguez-Abello S (2015) Ländliche Lebensverhältnisse im Wandel 1952, 1972, 1993, 2012 : Vol. 4, Soziale Unterstützungsstrukturen im Wandel. Braunschweig: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, 128 p, Thünen Rep 32, Vol. 4, DOI:10.3220/REP1445508702000
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Evers-Wölk M, Oertel B, Thio SL, Kahlisch C, Sonk M (2015) Ländliche Lebensverhältnisse im Wandel 1952, 1972, 1993, 2012 : Vol. 5, Neue Medien und dörflicher Wandel. Braunschweig: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, 145 p, Thünen Rep 32, Vol. 5, DOI:10.3220/REP1445512828000
