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33 Publications

The ecology of surface: Within and beyond communities in transformation through macro-paintings

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 will lead to their overall transformation. As a result, communities serve as a focal point in this process, upon which macro-paintings are intended to have a significant impact. In this brief paper, we aim to illuminate the phenomenon of…

Topics: Housing, Globalization, Identity, City and Village, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory, Public Administration

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

Governed by atmospheres: Affect, materiality and everyday benevolence in homeless encampments during the COVID-19 pandemic

This article explores the operation of homeless encampments as a part of governance by highlighting the role of affective atmospheres. The COVID-19 pandemic and the imposition of lockdowns have seen the introduction of unprecedented measures into homelessness governance in Czech cities. Some have set up temporary homeless encampments as a response to the declaration of the state of emergency. Relying on interviews and observations, this article reveals that such measures in cities differed significantly in bot…

Topics: Housing, City and Village, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory, Public Administration

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Quasi-household economy: Rethinking homelessness in post-socialist Pilsen and beyond

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 analysis, this paper introduces the concept of the quasi-household economy (QHE). This economy connects the informal and formal spheres and involves not only “homeless” people but also some classes of housed people. The paper fu…

Topics: Housing, Debts, Economy, Globalization, Culture, City and Village, Interpersonal Relations, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

"Ethnographies of urban change: introducing homelessness and the post-socialist city."

Topics: City and Village

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

From squat to cottage: materiality, informal ownership, and the politics of unspotted homes

‘Homeless’ people are usually considered as citizens without property. The absence of ownership, especially in terms of housing, co-creates the very idea of homelessness in current societies. Despite this fact, ‘homeless’ citizens negotiate and experience their property, things, or the shelter in which they dwell. This paper sheds light on how this property is negotiated and experienced and how it influences home-making. It does so by drawing on long-term ethnographic research in the city of Pilsen, a …

Topics: Housing, City and Village, Research Methodology, Interpersonal Relations, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Na jedné lodi. Globalizace a bezdomovectví v českém městě

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 doprovodných logik vznikajících na pomezí kultury ulice a určitých podmínek charakteristických pro českou společnost. Na pozadí případové studie Plzně a srovnání s některými prvky bezdomovectví ve Spojen…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Globalization, City and Village, Interpersonal Relations, Regions, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory, Public Policy, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

„Je tam úplně nejlíp“: sociomaterialita, svépomoc a alternativní politika domova v českém stanovém městečku

Topics: Housing, City and Village, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

The politics of the makeshift city: materiality, symbolic boundaries, and social relations in squatter settlements in Latin America (Interview with María José Álvarez Rivadulla)

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. However, let’s start with your beginnings. I have discovered that you started to study informal urbanism in Montevideo in the 90s, 1997 to be exact, which is a pretty long time ago. So, how did it all begin? Why did you start stud…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Globalization, City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Regions, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Making city-bases: homeless places, poverty management, and urban change in Pilsen, Czechia

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 (the Escalators) in Pilsen, a second-order city in Czechia. Eskalátory is part of an underpass with a four-lane road, a tramway, and four outdoor escalators, altogether, forming a specific urban assemblage. The paper describes three spe…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Globalization, City and Village, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Mezi živobytím a kratochvílí: Kutilství v podmínkách extrémní chudoby a marginalizace

Topics: Housing, Economy, City and Village, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Co nám slumy mohou říct o bezdomovectví? Urbánní chudoba v době nové globální ekonomiky

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: homelessness is reduced to housing, and the debate evokes it can be simply resolve by the existence of social housing. But as sociologist Saskia Sassen points out, today's cities, including their public spaces, are new strategic sites and fronti…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Globalization, Wages and Incomes, Work, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Mobilities and commons unseen: spatial mobility in homeless people explored through the analysis of GPS tracking data

The aim of this study was to examine the spatial mobility of homeless people in urban areas, exploring homeless mobility, its drivers, limits and links to personal attributes, and whether there is an association between the extent of spatial activity and an individual’s housing situation. To our knowledge, there has been no prior exhaustive attempt to explore the spatial mobility of homeless people using Global Positioning System (GPS) location devices. The theoretical background of the research was…

Topics: Housing, City and Village, Research Methodology, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Využití metody Respondent-Driven Sampling u populace lidí bez domova: základní principy, aplikace a praktická doporučení

Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a survey method used to create samples of populations that are hidden and hard to reach. Even though the method has been used since the 1990s in studies internationally, it has not yet been used in Czech research. The RDS methodology tends to be described presented as a statistical tool that makes it possible to produce unbiased estimates of hidden or hard-to-reach populations, and at the same as a tool with which to effectively recruit respondents from the given populations…

Topics: Housing, Research Methodology, Social Inequalities, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Activity spaces of men and women measured by GPS tracking data: A comparative analysis of Prague and Pilsen

The aim of this article is to investigate the factors that influence the size of activity spaces of homeless men and women in cities. Vulnerable population groups such as the homeless face the risk of mobility challenges that can exacerbate their social exclusion even more through mobility-driven spatial exclusion. The extent of an individual’s activity space is a key precondition for the daily coping strategies and life opportunities of homeless people. This study is the first to combine GPS tracking of hom…

Topics: City and Village, Research Methodology, Migration and Mobility, Social Policy

Publication Type: Working Paper

Jsou česká města revanšistická? Úvaha o povaze punitivního urbanismu v ČR

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 kapitálem a státem, sociální reprodukcí a sociální kontrolou. Jedním z projevů této proměny je i etablování tzv. punitivního urbanismu, tj. sady různorodých represivních nástrojů (např…

Topics: Economy, Globalization, City and Village, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Žít (mezi) místy: Geografie lidí bez domova

Časoprostor bývá základní konceptuální optikou, jakou je v sociálních vědách na bezdomovectví nahlíženo. Většina studií věnovaných vztahu bezdomovectví a časoprostoru ale chápe tento vztah nediferencovaně, tzn., dle našeho názoru dostatečně neproblematizuje jeho individuální, skupinové či lokálně-podmíněné vnímání, praktikování a prožívání. A přitom rozdíly jsou ve studiu (časoprostoru) lidí bez domova extrémně důležité. Důraz na porozumění rozdílům, …

Topics: Housing, City and Village, Research Methodology, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Activity spaces of homeless men and women measured by GPS tracking data: A comparative analysis of Prague and Pilsen

The aim of this article is to investigate the factors that influence the size of activity spaces of homeless men and women in cities. Vulnerable population groups such as the homeless face the risk of mobility challenges that can exacerbate their social exclusion even more through mobility-driven spatial exclusion. The extent of an individual’'s activity space is a key precondition for the daily coping strategies and life opportunities of homeless people. This study is the first to combine GPS tracking of …

Topics: City and Village, Research Methodology, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Social Policy

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Ties, sites and irregularities: pitfalls and benefits in using respondent-driven sampling for surveying a homeless population

Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a survey method for hidden populations and, as such, it offers a suitable approach for sampling the homeless. Surprisingly, the practical use of RDS in surveying homeless populations has only sporadically been described in the professional literature so far, and the specifics of using RDS for sampling this group have not been reflected in depth. The goal of the article is to investigate how three specific concerns, namely the transitional character of social ties among the h…

Topics: City and Village, Research Methodology, Social Inequalities, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Mezi taktikou a afektem, ne-místem a místem: Vizuální analýza každodenní geografie osob bez domova

The article uses photovoice to explore the everyday geography of homelessness and its affective dimension. We focus on two aspects of the everyday geography captured by photovoice: (1) movement in space and (2) the performativity of heterotopic places. The aim is to understand how the research partners as actors (re)present and (re)construct their everyday geography by visual means and how they relate to it affectively (or otherwise). Photovoice is a suitable method for this type of research as it has been use…

Topics: Housing, Gender, Research Methodology, Interpersonal Relations, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

The Discursive Dimension of Second-order Elections: The Case of Czech Regional Elections 2012

The goal of this paper is to describe linguistic and issue differences in election manifestos of the parties involved in the Czech 2012 regional election and contribute to a better understanding of second-order election (SOE) theory on a discursive level. The year 2012 brought two main changes: a significant success of the Communist Party and a rise of regional parties, movements and coalitions. Thus, the paper looks at differences between strong well-established parties and the newly successful Communist part…

Topics: Research Methodology, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Referendum, nebo účet krajským vládám? Volební programy 2012

The goal of this chapter is to identify and describe the main discursive strategies that are used by political parties’ manifestos in Czech regional elections in 2012. The chapter looks at textual differences between strong well-established parties and the newly successful Communist party and unsatisfied regional parties and movements. The methodical approach to this research is combination of quantitative content analysis and qualitative discursive analysis. Based on this the chapter identify four general d…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Formování komunit, nebo sociální integrace? Analýza personálních sítí ukrajinských imigrantů v Plzni

Nejpočetnější cizineckou minoritou současné České republiky jsou Ukrajinci. Dle Českého statistického úřadu jich na území ČR pobývá 105 239 (ČSÚ k 31. 12. 2013). Tradičně se koncentrují do velkých měst a jsou zaměstnáváni v manuálních profesích. Od příjezdu prvních pracovníků se ovšem řada aspektů jejich migrace změnila. Například vedle původní cirkulační, resp. podvojné životní strategie, lze stále více zaznamenat zájem o usazení v ČR. Cílem tohoto textu …

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Work, Social Capital, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Kdo je a není bezdomovec? Představy bezdomovce v praxi organizací poskytujících sociální služby

Topics: Globalization, Social Inequalities, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

"Předevčírem, nebo kdy to bylo?": Temporalita třídy nejchudších

The article seeks to describe the poorest class’s notion of time and through this critically address the prevailingly one-dimensional and unproblematised conception of time in the Czech social sciences. The relational concept of the poorest class here refers to individuals united by specific social practices and strategies that are determined by their position and mutual proximity within a social space. The article’s theoretical framework is anthropologist Nancy Munn’s practice-based or agent-oriented ap…

Topics: History of Sociology, Research Methodology, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

"Sme na jedný lodi": Morálka a ekonomika v prostředí třídy nejchudších

The aim of the article is to critically reassess relation between moral and economy of agents from the poorest class. The relational concept of the poorest class designates here homeless, drug-users, and some poor individuals generally that all have common particular social practices on the one hand and a position within of the social space on the other hand. The theoretical-conceptual frame of the article is the theory of practice of Pierre Bourdieu, “the nested geography” of Adrian Smith and Alison Stenn…

Topics: Housing, Interpersonal Relations, Social Capital, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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