Urban social movements in a small town: the case of “Aktywne Giżycko”
Urban social movements in a small town: the case of “Aktywne Giżycko”

Summary/Abstract: Studies about Poland’s urban social movements concentrate on major cities like Warsaw or other significant financial and educational centres. Out of 40 member organisations of the Congress of Urban Movements (as of July 31 2018)1, only 2 come from a town of the population under 50 thousand2. Small provincial towns experiencing depopulation caused by substantial emigration to metropolises have an-other notion of their “right to the city” feelings. This article examines Aktywne Giży-cko (Active Giżycko) case, an association from a 30 thousand Masurian town. It aims to answer why this “right to the city” organisation emerged in a small town, while in Poland, it is still mainly the domain of big agglomerations. The investigation was based on 3-year long research comprising biographical interviews, participating ob-servations, archive studies and local press surveys.

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