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Protect or punish debtors? Policymaker discourse on the state’s role in personal debt governance
Personal debt is a device increasing one’s agency but embedded within moral and legal frameworks that constructs people as individualised financial subjects. This article aims to enrich research on the state role in (subject) financialisation through a focus on personal debt governance modes as constructed in policymaker discourse on the state role in personal debt regulation. Our argument is contextualised in the Czech Republic, where, in 2021, 10 per cent of the adult population faced legal debt enforcemen…
Topics: Debts
Financialisation and contested citizenship of ‘failed’ debtors: how overindebted people negotiate their status and rights
Centring in attention on overindebted people, the article examines ‘practices of claim-making’ from the perspective of ‘failed citizens’, insiders who lose their rights within constitutional democracies because they are perceived as failing to live up to its norms. We examined these practices in the context of the Czech debt collection system, which gives excessive power to lending institutions and bailiffs and severely limits debtors’ social, labour and privacy rights. We show how the processes of f…
‘I’m not going to feed the bailiffs’: personal bankruptcy and debtor agency in narrative accounts of struggling debtors
The article uses the formal instrument of personal bankruptcy proceedings as an illuminating context to contribute to the scholarship on the lived experience of overindebtedness. Through the analysis of 29 in-depth interviews with heavy debtors living in Czechia, we provide a focus on debtor agency, exploring how bankruptcy interrelates with how struggling debtors narratively approach debt and construct their capacity to act. We show that first-hand accounts of (planned) participation in a bankruptcy proceedin…
Consumption loans consuming homes: intersections of housing precarity and personal overindebtedness
Housing precarity as a condition referring to housing insecurity and unaffordability has been on the rise over the last decade across Europe and beyond. While various studies discuss the character of housing precarity and its links to (subprime) mortgage loans, the role of specific moral economies of debt in enacting housing policies which reinforce housing precarity is less developed in relation to other kinds of loans or the experience of debt enforcement. This article analyses fifty narrative interviews—t…
Hands labouring for safety: Mediated intimacy in influencer communities on Instagram
The article explores how digital images of hands are used as a symbolic representation of intimacy and intimate emotions in influencer communication on Instagram. Based on digital ethnography with female influencers in the Czech Republic, the analysis focuses on three categories of communicative practices, where hands function as a visual representation of intimacy—creating community, a sense of vulnerability, and the notion of rawness and openness. The analysis points to the gendered nature of influencer co…
Jak v české společnosti osobní dluhy formují životy zadlužených a společenské hierarchie?
This setting of personal debt in the Czech Republic is characterized by the punitive system of foreclosures and debt enforcement, which enabled to multiplied fees for debt enforcement starting the so-called "debt traps" and "debt spirals", on the one side and on the other by the rather stable system of mortgage debts with low number of arrears. The punitive debt enforcement system has been thus related to the segment of predatory consumption loans which were until 2016 highly deregulated and which enabled…
Living hated: Everyday experiences of hate speech across online and offline contexts
The article builds on current research into the effects and harms of hate speech in the lives of its victims. It introduces the anthropological concept of everyday violence to focus on hate speech as an everyday experience as opposed to a sequence of separate hate speech acts. Methodologically, the study is based on a qualitative approach and analyses data collected via semi-structured interviews (N=33) with people who have experienced hate speech in four EU member states (Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic an…
The role of empathy in support for inclusive education
According to UNESCO, educating all children in the same classrooms, with adequate support and taking into consideration their different needs, provides benefits for everyone. However, public opinion about inclusive education is rarely uniform and often unsupportive. While public support for placing pupils with special needs in regular classes is crucial for both legislation and the implementation of effective inclusive practices, knowledge about the predictors of this support is limited. Additionally, we know …
Topics: Value Orientations, Education
Sources of sex disaggregated data + practical examples
Topics: Gender, Sociological Data
Kdo musí jít z kola ven? Sociální a prostorové faktory volby střední školy a dokončení středního vzdělání v Karlovarském kraji
The research report focuses on two main topics, on the one hand, on the decision-making of pupils in the Karlovy Vary region regarding their choice of secondary school and field of their study, and on the other hand on the factors that increase the risk of a pupil finishing secondary school studies prematurely in this region. The final part of the report presents also findings from in-depth interviews with pupils and parents from socially excluded localities of the Karlovy Vary region about their educational a…
Topics: City and Village, Regions, Education
Homeschooling as an extension of school choice in the Czech Republic after the COVID-19 pandemic?
The aim of the study was to examine the homeschooling and its recent development in Czechia as part of the school choice debate. The study analyses the different attitudes towards homeschooling among different groups within the Czech population and the underlying demographic, socio-economic, and ideological factors that may be behind these differences, as well as analysing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this form of education in Czech society. The analysis of the nationally representative data shows th…
Independents in local politics – voter turnout, competitiveness, and party-system effects
Denationalisation and the rise of independent lists are strong trends in the local politics of many European countries, but little is known about their implications. Using the example of Czechia, we examine several effects of this trend, focussing on two questions: 1) What impact does the growing number of independents have on voter turnout? 2) How does this trend affect competitiveness and the party system? Using data on electoral results in Czech municipalities over two consecutive elections, we document mob…
From an alternative to a dominant form of local political actors? Independent candidates in the Czech local elections in 2010-2018
This article aims to contribute to the debate on the rise of independents in local politics and the underlying factors driving this trend in Europe by investigating the situation in Czechia, a post-communist country with a highly fragmented local government system. This study uses statistical analyses of electoral data from the 2010, 2014 and 2018 local elections to test the relevance of supply-side and demand-side explanations of the rise of independents. The analysis results show that the political strength …
Chinese food self-provisioning: key sustainability policy lessons hidden in plain sight.
Drawing on an exploratory study of urban food self-provisioning (FSP) in China, this article argues that progress in sustainability scholarship can be accelerated by embracing a greater diversity of framings of sustainability. It brings four important empirical findings concerning the prevalence of Chinese urban FSP, the social diversity of its practitioners, their primarily non-economic motivations, and production methods meeting the criteria for organic food that are deployed by more than a third of urban fo…
Žehnám veškeré Boží havěti
A book-length interview with entomologist and priest Matúš Kocian about interspecies coexistence, ecological ethics, and spirituality. Prague: Karmelitánské nakladatelství, 2023.…
Topics: Religion and religiosity, Environment, Lifestyle
Publication Type: Other Publication
Znovu objevit Zemi
The 112th issue of the magazine Prostor, titled "Re-discovering the Earth," explores how to approach collaboration with other forms of life. This issue was edited by Lukáš Senft and brings together authors from various professions, including legends of the Czech ecological movement and representatives of the youngest generation. Contributors include professor Hana Librová, economist Naďa Johanisová, climatologist Alexander Ač, sociologist Tereza Stöckelová, as well as writers Pavla Horáková and Ivana…
Topics: Globalization, Climate Change, Environment
Publication Type: Other Publication
A Forager’s Notebook: Invitation to Drift with(in) Tastes, Crops, and Landscapes
In October 2024, Lukáš Senft and Tereza Stöckelová from the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, along with Will LaFleur from the University of Helsinki, organized a workshop titled Foraging for Planetary Health: Exploring Multispecies Metabolism in a Postindustrial Landscape. The idea behind the workshop was to make standard production and distribution chains visible by bypassing them. We aimed to return to the roots of food preparation, learning to create meals and beverages without r…
Topics: Sociology of Sciences, Technology and society, Environment, Lifestyle
Publication Type: Other Publication
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
The Position of Women in Czech Science 2022. Monitoring Report
Monitorovací zpráva informuje o zastoupení žen a mužů napříč vědními obory, akademickými sektory a sektory ekonomiky, včetně pozice České republiky v mezinárodním srovnání. Cílem publikace je poukázat na jeden z mnoha projevů genderové kultury v české vědě. Hodnoty, které máme k dispozici, dokládají výrazné disproporce, které v české vědě a výzkumu přetrvávají. Poukazují na to, že situace není příznivá, což dokládá i mezinárodní srovnání. Český výzkum …
Topics: Gender, Sociology of Sciences
Publication Type: Other Publication
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
The Czech Household Panel Survey. Data Manual. Wave 6 (2023–2024)
The Czech Household Panel Survey (CHPS) is a longitudinal survey, which repeatedly interviewed a random sample of households living in the Czech Republic. Between 2015 and 2019, five waves were carried out. In 2020 and 2021, two smaller data collections dedicated to the covid-19 disease pandemic took place. This data documentation describes these two covid-19 surveys. Data sets, questionnaires, documentation and other materials related to previous years of CHPS and ad hoc covid-19 surveys are published in the …
Topics: Sociological Data
Sources of sex disaggregated data
Topics: Gender, Entrepreneurship, Sociological Data
Healthcare for People Experiencing Homelessness
Healthcare provided to people experiencing homelessness (PEH) represents a challenge for public healthcare systems at the system level, but also to professionals who provide the outpatient healthcare to PEH (Lester, Wright, & Heath, 2002). The usual healthcare systems settings aim at the majority population, which makes it difficult to reach by PEH. Social exclusion leads to underutilization of healthcare by these people (Nagy-Borsy et al., 2021) and results in seeking medical help only in urgent situ…
Topics: Housing, Care, Social Inequalities, Public Policy, Public health
No coalition is an island: how pre-electoral coalitions at the national-level shape local elections
The rise of populist parties has affected the structure of electoral competition on the national level. To evaluate the depth of such changes, this paper examines whether pre-electoral coalitions (PEC) that contested the 2021 Czech general election aiming to replace the populist ANO in the government were replicated at the local level. Using the probit multilevel model estimated on the dyads, the results indicate that local pre-electoral coalitions were more likely to form if they were based on two (of three) …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Understanding precautionary savings behaviour: Insights from Czechia
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of precautionary savings across several dimensions. Using data from a survey of Czech households, it identifies the primary factors influencing whether households possess precautionary savings and save regularly, their subjective perception of the optimal level of precautionary savings, and the discrepancy between this perceived optimum and their actual savings. Findings highlight the crucial effect of household income, and the way households make ends meet that sh…
Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities
Gender Dimension in Research: a handbook for researchers
Gender Dimension in Research: a handbook for researchers aims to provide support to researchers in implementing the gender dimension in research and innovation in accordance with the requirements of Horizon Europe, GA ČR, TA ČR and other research funding organisations. It is a practical guide on how to integrate the gender dimension in different fields and contains both an overview of why and where the gender dimension is needed as well as specific tools for its implementation.
ISBN 978-80-7330-421-8 (onlin…
Topics: Gender, Research Methodology
Publication Type: Other Publication
Department: Národní kontaktní centrum - gender a věda
Low Participation of Researchers in ERC Grants: A Survey Analysis
This study analyses the low participation of Czech researchers in prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grants, highlighting gender disparities and institutional challenges. Based on survey data from 218 researchers, the study reveals that while the majority of respondents considered participating in ERC grants (78%), only about third of them (29 %) actually applied for an the ERC grant. The study examines specific barriers that the respondents experience and highlights the differences in the responses o…
Topics: European Union, Gender, Work, Education
Publication Type: Other Publication
Department: Národní kontaktní centrum - gender a věda
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