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Authors: Fernández, Alejandra, Petr Vašát
Macro-paintings have become a popular tool used by various actors to uplift marginalized communities in cities of the global South by transforming their physical environments. These actors operate under the assumption that improving the material conditions of these communities wi...
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Authors: Simonová, Natalie
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Authors: Young, Iris Marion, Uhde, Zuzana (ed.)
The book presents a selection of Iris M. Young’s more recent writings on justice and social difference. In these texts the author focuses on gender analysis, on the concept of self-determination as non-domination in local as well as global context, and on structural injusti...
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Authors: Uhde, Zuzana
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Authors: Uhde, Zuzana
The article concerns a review of American critical theorist Nancy Fraser and German critical theorist Axel Honneth. The authors gradually reply to each other in two steps and confront their approaches of justice. On the one hand Fraser proposes two-dimens...
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Authors: Smith, Joe, Kostelecký, Tomáš, Jehlička, Petr
This paper questions assumptions about the relationship between class formation, sustainability and patterns of consumption. The empirical elements of the research are based upon qualitative and quantitative time-series research into food self-provisioning and ‘quiet sustai...
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Authors: Jiří Večerník a Martina Mysíková
V návaznosti na studii autorů „Chudoba v České republice. Kritický pohled na evropské ukazatele“ tato studie přináší souhrnný pohled na výdělky osob, příjmy domácností, přerozdělovací toky, majetkové rozdíly a hospodaření rodin, a to jednak ve vývoji v ČR a jednak ve srovnání s e...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
Přibližně od osmdesátých let dochází ve světové ekonomice k řadě změn, kte­ré se zcela zásadním způsobem odrážejí ve městech. Americký geograf Neil Smith v tomto duchu mluví o tzv. nové urbánní strategii. Novým způsobem jsou v rámci jednotlivých měst formulovány vztahy mezi kapit...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
Over the past few years, the topic of social housing has dominated the Czech professional and non-professional debate on homelessness. All experts agree that social housing in the Czech Republic is a necessity. However, one dangerous theme circulates in the discussion: homelessne...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
The article explores how homeless people make places in the public space, while revealing some of the overlooked effects these places may have on the wider city. The article relies on extensive ethnographic research and media coverage analysis of a place called Eskalátory...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
Petr Vašát (PV): Maria, first of all, thank you for meeting with me. For our interview, I have prepared questions spanning from informal urbanism to building techniques to politics. Some of these questions are more related to research, while some are more about urban development....
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
Kniha je interdisciplinární a multimetodologickou studií bezdomovectví v Česku. Autor v ní čtenáři ukazuje, jak se bezdomovectví zhmotňuje na průsečíku politickoekonomických faktorů, jako jsou demokratizace společnosti nebo integrace do globální ekonomiky, a specifických doprovod...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
The paper repositions homelessness in existing cities by highlighting the importance of transformative economic agency. Relying on a combination of long-term ethnographic research in the city of Pilsen, a traditional industrial second-order city in Czechia, and political–economic...