The emphasis of this book is on understanding local identities through the representations produced and disseminated by local people, residents of working class estates placed in Upper Silesia, ca

The presented book was created as the result of cooperation between researchers from centers in six countries who were investigating the transformations occurring in European postindustrial regions.

The three separate research projects selected for the book fall into place and the well-thought-out whole features: (a) coherence of the theoretical perspective, which is a combination of classical a