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Call for applications: Outreach and advocacy specialist in the field of gender equality policy in research and innovation

The Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences invites applications for the position of outreach and advocacy specialist in the field of gender equality policy in research and innovation in its research department, the Centre for Gender …

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Call for applications: Postdoctoral Research position

Call for applications: Postdoctoral Research position at Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences…

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Pat Lyons: "Being able to recall facts is only one aspect of having political knowledge"

Czech Academy of Sciences recently announced, that nine exceptional scientists obtained a DSc. degree. One of them was Pat Lyons ffrom the Institute of Sociology CAS for his outstanding work Political Knowledge in the Czech Republic. Read the intervi…

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Giving birth as a struggle: between bodily experience and medical practice

Globally, the birth giving practice became highly “medicalised.” Czech legislation reinforces this trend on birth giving by restricting the possibility to choose the place of birth. As a result, vast majority of women give birth in the hospital w…

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Foraging for planetary health: exploring multispecies metabolism in postindustrial landscape

Time and Place of Event: Prague
Event Date: 03.10.2024 - 06.10.2024

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The event will begin on Thursday, October 3, with a public lecture by Will LaFleur at the Institute of Sociology, titled “Rethinking Beer: Histories and Futures of Tastes, Practices, and Reproduction for a Post-Growth World.” Registration is not required for this lecture. The following 3-day workshop focuses on using the methods and concepts of social sciences and arts to explore foraging as a mode of coexistence in multispecies relations.

Foraging involves activities that not only complement but also subvert existing distribution chains and encourage the search for non-industrial food production. “Edible commons” are sometimes proposed as a measure against crises threatening conventional industrial food distribution chains (Sardeshpande et al. 2021). Furthermore, Chang and Bai (2020) contrast foraging to “capitalistic food culture” since the industrial production and buying of food off the shelf obscures the chain of activities needed to create a product. Consumers often ignore the conditions under which products are made due to the disconnection between production and consumption, as scholars of feminist commons observed (Mies and Bennholdt-Thomsen, 2001; Federici, 2012). Foraging, in contrast, makes the food production processes visible and tangible. Annemarie Mol (2021) noted that during the act of eating, the world moves through the body. While building upon her approach, the workshop will pursue the following questions: What is metabolised when we eat food that we have gathered, prepared, and reflected on together? What new entanglements between people and non-human forms of life emerge when food is obtained through foraging? How does eating change if the labour and joy—and, perhaps even pain—of foraging is part of the food preparation?

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Micro-practices of societal transformation? Mid-term conference of the CESCAME project

Time and Place of Event: Zasedačka Florenc, 5th floor, Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Florenci 3, Prague, and online
Event Date: 14.10.2024 - 15.10.2024

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CESCAME invites you to the Mid-term Conference in Prague, where we will explore the micro-practices driving societal transformation in the face of global environmental change, particularly within urban populations. Our confirmed guests are Luca Sára Bródy, Laura Berger, Jonas van der Straeten, Bianka Plüschke-Altof. Please register if you want to participate.

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