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Politika ve svěrací kazajce

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Gender & Sociology

Trhy jsou tvorové, co mají sentimenty

Topics: Economy

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Gender & Sociology

Nejistotu musíme sdílet společně (rozhovor)

Topics: Sociological Data

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Gender & Sociology

Being slightly polemical with consensualist thrust of the opening article and inspired by Roland Barthes and Carl Schmitt, they outline two moments of politicization. In the first moment, up to now self-evident and given realities are doubted, only to initiate, in the second moment, a dispute that is undecidable rationally and entails the recognition of legitimate enemies. At the close, a typology of various forms of depoliticization is proposed. …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Theory has no Big Others in STS

I argue in this chapter that we do not need, in STS, to be concerned with losing theory (to descriptions and stories, fieldwork, practice or politics), rather recognizing different forms in which theory is and can be practiced. Along that line, we create a space to further decenter STS theory from masculinity, professional community and the (lab) natural science epistemic order. In all these cases, we should not strive toward simply developing a distinct theory for “other” areas that have fallen o…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Diskuse o vztahu přerozdělování a uznání

The review of the book of two prominent personalities of the critical theory Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth presents their different approaches to the theory of justice in the reciprocal confrontation. Whereas Fraser proposes two-dimensional theory of justice that would combine theories of distributive justice and theories of recognition, Honneth suggests alternative approach to justice that redistribution struggles conceives as one of kinds of recognition struggles. …

Topics: Value Orientations, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Multikulturní dialog v monologu o vagínách

In the article the author highlights the critical potential of the theatre performance Vagina Monologues written by Eve Ensler with regard to both gender justice and multiculturalism. Ensler adverts to the injustice that women face particularly by means of narrative while she aims to avoid the western imperialistic view and afford the space to women outside the western culture too. Notwithstanding that the performance would benefit by stronger accent to the connection between feminism and multiculturalism, th…

Topics: Gender, Sociology of Law

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Nancy Fraserová, Axel Honneth: Přerozdělování nebo uznání?

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-dimensional theory of justice that would combine theories of distributive justice and theories of recognition, on the other handHonneth formulates theory of recognition that redistribution struggles conceives as one of kinds of recognition struggles. …

Topics: Value Orientations, Interpersonal Relations

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Nancy Fraser: Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflexions on the ´Postsocialist´ Condition

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-dimensional theory of justice that would combine theories of distributive justice and theories of recognition, on the other hand Honneth formulates theory of recognition that redistribution struggles conceives as one of kinds of recognition struggles. …

Topics: Economy, Globalization, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Feminismus je tady a je náš aneb marginalizované(í) spojte se!

The article is a review of a book Mnohohlasem. Vyjednávání ženských prostorů po roce 1989, in which collective of authors is mapping the development of women oriented activism in the Czech Republic after the fall of communism in 1989. …

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Péče jako nedoceněná nájemní práce v globální ekonomice

The article is a review of collection of articles edited by Arlie R. Hochschild and Barbara Ehrenreich. They presented in this book set of articles dealing with the transformation of social organization of care in the context of globalization, feminization of migration and global inequalities. …

Topics: Globalization, Migration and Mobility, Care

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Nancy Fraser: Rozvíjení radikální imaginace. Globální přerozdělování, uznání a reprezentace

The review presents the book by Nancy Fraser Stretching Radical Imagination which encompasses the articles representing her theoretical development from the two-dimensional theory towards the theory of postwesphalian democratic justice …

Topics: Globalization, Sociology of Law

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Paradoxy kapitalistické modernizace z feministické perspektivy

he article is a review of the volume published by the collective of authors of Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main which focuses under the direction of Axel Honneth on the theory of paradoxical development of capitalist modernization. …

Topics: Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Virginia Held: The Ethics of Care. Personal, Political, and Global

The review of the book The Ethics of Care. Personal, Political, and Global by Virginia Held. …

Topics: Gender, Care

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology

Antagonismus neoliberalismu a sociální spravedlnosti

The article is a review of the book Social Critique in the Era of Globalization by Marek Hrubec and the collective of authors. The authors deal not only with the critical analysis of the contemporary global order and the situation of huge number of global poor and exploited but they also suggest possible institutional arrangements to solve social conflicts and profound economic injustice. In the Czech context it is important that the book brings feminist authors into the field of critical globalization studies…

Topics: Gender, Globalization

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Gender & Sociology