Publikace
Authors: Anja Decker
Collective 'uprooting', 'sick' villages and a new rural generation: Symbolic distinctions of Lifestyle migrants in the Czech borderlands. The paper adds to the debate on rural transformation and social differentiation through privileged mobility and migration. Using lifestyle mig...
Projekt
The aim of this project is to examine local responses to global environmental problems (climate change, soil degradation, food quality, etc.) in terms of social movements and lifestyles. The research activity is carried out within the framework of the Strategy AV 21 Global Confli...
Trvání projektu: 2017 - 2020
Publikace
Authors: Millard, Jeremy, Sturla, Alberto, Smutná, Zdeňka, Janssen, Meike, Vávra, Jan
The concept of the city-region food system is gaining attention due to the need to improve food availability, quality and environmental benefits, for example through sustainable agri-food strategies. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of coherent and inclusive fo...
Publikace
Authors: Bernard, J. (ed.), Kostelecký, T., Mikešová, R., Šafr, J., Šimon, M., Trlifajová, L., Hurrle, J.
Kniha osmi autorek a autorů se zabývá životními podmínkami obyvatel venkovských periferií v Česku. Klade si zejména otázku, jestli bydlení v periferiích zvyšuje riziko různých forem sociálního znevýhodnění. Zkoumá postavení obyvatel venkovských periferií na trhu práce, jejic...
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V červenci badatelky a badatelé Sociologického ústavu AV ČR poskytovali rozhovory a komentáře médiím. Přinášíme shrnutí některých z jejich vystoupení.
Publikace
Authors: Kolářová, Marta
This article focuses on the contemporary back-to-the-land migration of permaculture practitioners in post-socialist (1989–) Czechia. It explores the ideals and practices of self-sufficiency among back-to-the-land migrants as they relate to their migration motives and post-migrati...
Publikace
Authors: Šimon, Martin
Téma odchodu z města na venkov je nejen námětem filmových či románových příběhů, ale je také předmětem geografického výzkumu. Předložený text si klade za cíl ukázat, kteří lidé nejčastěji odcházejí z města na venkov a jaké k tomu mají důvody. Na příkladech analýzy vyprá...
Publikace
Authors: Kolářová, Marta
The article focuses on self-reliance and DIY in eco-gardens. Self-reliance does not only includes food self-provisioning, but also housing, energy, making objects for everyday use, healing and homeschooling.  
Publikace
Authors: Kingsley, Jonathan, Donati, Kelly, Litt, Jill, Shimpo, Naomi, Blythe, Chris, Vávra, Jan, Caputo, Silvio, Milbourne, Paul, Diekmann, Lucy O., Rose, Nick, Fox-Kämper, Runrid, van den Berg, Agnes, Metson, Geneviève S., Ossola, Alessandro, Feng, Xiaoqi, Astell-Burt, Thomas, Baker, Amy, Lin, Brenda B., Egerer, Monika, Marsh, Pauline, Pettitt, Philip, Scott, Theresa L., Alaimo, Katherine, Neale, Kate, Glover, Troy, Byrne, Jason
There is a significant amount of evidence highlighting the health, wellbeing and social benefits of gardening during previous periods of crises. These benefits were also evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper presents a narrative review exploring gardening during the ea...
Akce
18. 11. 2020
The Institute for Advanced Study at CEU is pleased to invite you to its next Seminar.
Projekt
Environmental degradation, the pandemic and growing food prices highlighted the vulnerability and unsustainability of the current food system. Its resilience can be enhanced by developing closer links with informal sources of food. The recent research shifted the interpretation o...
Trvání projektu: 2024 - 2026
Publikace
Authors: Šustrová, Klára, Šimon, Martin
Changing life-style patterns in urban and rural environment has been a perennial topic in social science research. The differences between urban and rural gained different meaning and different significance today then they has had during industrial urbanization characterized with...
Publikace
Authors: Chorvát, Ivan, Jiří Šafr
Leisure Activities in Slovakia and the Czech Republic: Are the Factors that Influence them Nationally Specific?This article focuses on the factors that influence leisure time in Slovakia and the Czech Republic by using a dataset from coordinated surveys on leisure time carried ou...
Akce
29. 1. 2014
Jaké potřeby nám město uspokojuje a jaké frustruje? Jak ovlivňuje naše zdraví? Jak je možné o naše město pečovat?
Aktualita
Ilustrace: Pixabay.com
V průběhu května badatelky a badatelé ze Sociologického ústavu AV ČR vystupovali v médiích. Co se nevešlo do samostatných aktualit na ústavním webu?
Akce
13. 10. 2021 - 15. 10. 2021
Interactions between formality and informality in urban contexts: Insights from the margins
CESCAME (Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment) invites you to the online conference organised (online) at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, 13 – 15. 10., 2 – 5 pm each day (GMT +2 / Prague time).
Akce
13. 10. 2021 - 15. 10. 2021
Interactions between formality and informality in urban contexts: Insights from the margins
CESCAME (Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment) invites you to the online conference organised (online) at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, 13 – 15. 10., 2 – 5 pm each day (GMT +2 / Prague time).
Projekt
The project focuses on Prague allotments as an empirical example of the changing approach to urban nature and urban planning after the fall of socialism. Allotments represent spaces of affection and care. As urban nature, they are spaces of intense political negotiations. The pro...
Trvání projektu: 2016 - 2018
Publikace
Authors: Kolářová, Marta
This book examines collective and individual forms of lifestyle politics and political consumerism in the environmental sphere. Lifestyle politics is about how citizens become involved in politics through their everyday decision-making and it includes the ethically, morally, and...

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