The aim of the article is to analyse rural social movements in Poland. The authors strive to analyse the identities, goals and methods by which these movements’ activists operate. They distinguish three periods of social mobilisation. The first, covering the 1980s, was tied to the process of an active political opposition taking shape in Poland; the next was the early 1990s, so the first years of the systemic transformation; and the third — the active involvement of rural social movements after 2015. The analysis presented here concerns above all the manner in which the farmers covered by the research perceive rural social movements and themselves, and takes into account the economic, political and social contexts. The authors strive to provide answers regarding whether and what social processes and events were of key significance for individual and collective identity. They draw attention to the importances of global crises and their impact on strategies of social mobilisation and the respondents’ ways of reasoning. Aspects of interest to them include the generational differences and how they affect the respondents’ perception of their involvement in protests, and the situation of such people as themselves. The conclusions from the analysis indicate that the local perspective is intermingling with the perspective confirming that rural inhabitants are exposed to the influence of changing factors that transcend national borders.
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