Bernard, J., A. Steinführer, A. Klärner, S. Keim-Kl ärner. 2022. „Regional opportunity structures: A research agenda to link spatial and social inequalities in rural areas“. Progress in Human Geography. 47 (1). Dostupné z: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03091325221139980
This paper introduces and discusses regional opportunity structures as a concept for analysing the inter-linkages 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.
