Rural and Urban Differences in Economic Experiences, Anxiety and Support for the Post-communist Reforms in the Czech and Slovak Republics

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Authors: Hraba, Joseph, Allan McCutcheon, Jiří Večerník
The economic experiences and economic anxiety of rural and urban residents of the Czech and Slovak Republics during the postcommunist reforms are compared and related to their support for the reforms. The analysis is based on five national surveys, 1992–1996, collected by t...
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Fertility, natural growth and migration in the Czech Republic: an urban-suburban-rural gradient analysis of long-term trends and recent reversals

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Authors: Vobecká, Jana, Piguet, Virginie
This paper examines long-term trends in fertility and recent reversals in natural increase, net migration, and general fertility across residential contexts in the post-communist Czech Republic. Long-term differentials are analysed on the cumulative fertility of cohorts whose fer...
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Kooperationen, Abgrenzungen, (Un)Sichtbarkeiten. Landevents als temporäre Akteur*innengeflechte moralisierter Märkte. [Cooperations, distinctions, (in)visibilities. Rural events as temporal networks within moralized markes.]

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Authors: Decker, Anja
Rural studies have shown considerable interest in the implications the eventization of agriculture has for both rural communities and the agri-food system in the Global North. To contribute to the debate on the transformative potential of agri-food events such as farm festivals a...
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Multi-scalar geographies of polarisation and peripheralisation: A case study of Czechia

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Authors: Šimon, Martin
A key issue in socio-economic geography is to understand how regional and social polarisation shapes the territorial organisation of society. We argue that effects of polarisation are not translated simply and straightforwardly in a whole region, but vary to a large extent with r...
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Measuring phantom borders: the case of Czech/Czechoslovakian electoral geography

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Authors: Šimon, Martin
The article focuses on Czech/German ethnic boundary from former interwar Czechoslovakia and its persistence (or transience) in electoral behaviour in selected post-1989 elections. In the analytical part of the article links between populations in regions and electoral r...
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Elections

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Authors: Šimon, Martin
This bilingual, English-Czech atlas of Czechoslovakia is one of the first to use statistical data to evaluate spatial aspects of population development over time. Its twelve chapters present various themes relating directly to population from a historical perspective, such as dem...
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Volby

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Authors: Šimon, Martin
Historický atlas obyvatelstva českých zemí je jedním z prvních děl hodnotících prostorové aspekty téměř stoletého vývoje obyvatelstva na dnešním území Česka. V celkem dvanácti kapitolách jsou ve vývojovém srovnání představena témata jako migrace, demografická, ekonomická a kultur...
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Staying in a fallout shelter: exploring ostalgia through post-socialist heterotopia.

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Authors: Gibas, Petr, Nyklová, Blanka
This article details our attempts at making sense of an ostalgic heterotopic space. We relay here our analysis of staying in and exploring a disused air raid shelter built during WWII, converted into a fallout shelter at the beginning of the Cold War and recently repurposed in an...
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Tradice a změny v zemědělství

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Authors: Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
The paper concerns with the transformation of Czech agriculture in an international kontext after 1989, i tis based on data from qualitative research.
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Administrative division

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Authors: Šimon, Martin
This bilingual, English-Czech atlas of Czechoslovakia is one of the first to use statistical data to evaluate spatial aspects of population development over time. Its twelve chapters present various themes relating directly to population from a historical perspective, such as dem...
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Územně správní členění

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Authors: Šimon, Martin
Historický atlas obyvatelstva českých zemí je jedním z prvních děl hodnotících prostorové aspekty téměř stoletého vývoje obyvatelstva na dnešním území Česka. V celkem dvanácti kapitolách jsou ve vývojovém srovnání představena témata jako migrace, demografická, ekonomická a kultur...
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