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The book examines and investigates the legitimacy of the European Union by acknowledging the importance of variations across actors, institutions, audiences and context. The book chapter examines the role of the national parliaments and party politics in exercising the legitimization strategies in contemporary representative democracies.…

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, European Union, Legitimacy, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Geopolitical Change and EU Enlargement: Learning from the Past What lessons can the EU learn from past enlargement and accession policies?

Looking into new Geopolitical EU from and the EU Enlargement from historical perspective…

Topics: Economy, Energy, European Union, Globalization, Legitimacy, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

Women and employment: advances and challenges in policies for women's labour-force participation in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of the post-pandemic recovery

The purpose of this document is to provide inputs and contribute to reflection for decision-making in the field of equality in employment between men and women. It aims to be a document of proposals and measures of public policies that can be taken into consideration, both in the 27 countries of the European Union (EU27) and in their relationship with their partners in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), to increase women's participation into the labour market in a stable and equitable manner.…

Topics: Economy, Gender

Publication Type: Working Paper

Department: Gender & Sociology

Sympoietic growth: living and producing with fungi in times of ecological distress

Drawing upon ethnographic research on human living and producing with fungi, and Haraway’s theorization of sympoiesis and the model ecosystems of mycorrhizae developed in current mycological research, we offer a concept of sympoietic growth. Sympoiesis is a concept that suggests a way of thinking about growth as a more-than-human process and provides an alternative political imaginary both to current forms of economic growth and to the idea of “degrowth.” We explore humanfungi co-operation in forests, an…

Topics: Economy, Sociology of Sciences, Environment

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Život podle ZOE: přísliby a meze výzkumu více-než-lidské jedinečnosti

Kapitola sociologicky analyzuje případ výzkumné a zároveň komerční iniciativy společnosti ZOE, která představuje globální avantgardu lékařsko-mikrobiomového výzkumu v oblasti personalizované medicíny a výživy. Zajímavá je nejen kvůli inovativní metodologii, kombinaci špičkového „základního“ výzkumu a komerční služby pro klienty, které se vzájemně potřebují jako strategie poznávání a získávání dat, nebo kvůli tomu, jak sebe a své výsledky veřejně prezentuj…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Přepisování viru: Jak věda dělá skutečnost (nejen) v době epidemického rozrušení

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Dobrá praxe rovného odměňování na Islandu

Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

Rodičovství a genderové mzdové rozdíly ve vybraných kontextech trhu práce před pandemií covidu-19 a na jejím začátku

The article addresses the influence of parenthood on the gender pay gap (GPG). The linked employer − employee data available that is suitable for a detailed GPG analysis, does not include parenthood in Czechia. It is thus possible to examine the relationship between the GPG and parenthood via this data only indirectly through the use of data on age. Information System on Average Earnings (ISPV) data allows for the monitoring of compliance with the legal standard that requires equal pay for equal work. The an…

Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Care, Work, Parenting, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Prodlužující se pracovní dráhy, digitalizace, propouštění a gender v peněžnictví

Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Work, Social Inequalities, Age and Aging

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

“We Are in Control”: Instagram Influencers and the Proliferation of Conspiracy Narratives in Digital Spaces

Female spiritual influencers on Instagram engage with conspiracy content and appeal to the issue of control over female bodies to bridge the gap between mainstream and fringe online spaces. I use the concept of “third space” to analyse the dynamics of Instagram communities around spiritual influencers and highlight how these communities operate as spaces for political discussion while simultaneously appearing apolitical from the outside. Analysing data from participant observation and interviews with six f…

Topics: Gender, Media, Public health, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Výzkum ukázal, že se české domácnosti v důsledku pandemie více spoléhají na místní zdroje

Popularizační článek, věnující se proměnám stravování, nákupu lokálních potravin a saamozásobitelství během pandemie Covid-19. Výsledky prezentované v článku vycházejí ze sociologického šetření reprezentativního souboru 515 respondentů v Česku na podzim 2021.…

Topics: Consumption, Environment, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Local and regional studies

Škola jako integrační partner

Projekt Škola jako integrační partner je tříletým aplikačním projektem realizovaným Sociologickým ústavem Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i., vletech 2019 až 2021 aspolufinancovaným se státní podporou Technologické agentury ČR v rámci Programu ÉTA 2. Partnerem neboli aplikačním garantem tohoto projektu je hlavní město Praha. Hlavním cílem projektu je nejen zmapovat situaci na základních školách v Praze vzhledem k integraci dětí cizinců a žáků s odlišným mateřským jazykem (OMJ), …

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Social Policy, Public Policy, Education

Publication Type: Other Publication

Ups and downs in finance, ups without downs in inequality

The upswing in finance in recent decades has led to rising inequality, but do downswings in finance lead to a symmetric decline in inequality? We analyze the asymmetry of the effect of ups and downs in finance, and the effect of increased capital requirements and the bonus cap on national earnings inequality. We use administrative employer–employee-linked data from 1990 to 2019 for 12 countries and data from bank reports, from 2009 to 2017 in 13 European countries. We find a strong asymmetry in the effect of…

Topics: Economy, Elites, Gender, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Právní aspekty problematiky genderově podmíněného násilí na vysokých školách

Genderově podmíněné násilí včetně sexuálního obtěžování jsou závažnými problémy, ke kterým dochází i ve vysokoškolském prostředí. Genderově podmíněné násilí má vážné dopady na studijní a pracovní výsledky osob, které jej zažívají, ale i na osoby, které jsou tomuto jednání vystavovány z pozice svědků. Proto NKC - gender a věda ve spolupráci s právničkou Šárkou Homfray připravilo příručku, která shrnuje právní aspekty této problematiky a může tak sl…

Topics: Gender, Social Inequalities, Sociology of Sciences, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

The role of experts in forming family policy under an adversarial subsystem in the Czech Republic

Topics: Gender, Parenting, Social Policy

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Gender a změny v dělbě práce v domácnostech s dětmi v době pandemie covidu-19

The article ties in with the scholarship on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on gender equality. Based on a qualitative analysis of interviews with parents of children under 12, we examine the processes that led to the increase or dismantling of the gender division of labour in families during the first nationwide lockdown. Using the concepts of path dependency and ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ gender, we explain the strategies couples with children used to adapt to the enormous increase in reproductive wor…

Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

The space behind the garden: Inconspicuous land-related care in Czechia

The article deals with the phenomenon of taking up responsibility and individual care for public land, presenting the stories of two Czech people who have engaged in their environments in such a way. Should we see these actions as moral interventions, transporting ideas of good care, decrying neglect and ill-practice by offering practical examples of more appropriate ways of handling things? Can we understand them as not only forms of everyday world-making (Postero/Elinoff 2019), but also as inconspicuous,…

Topics: Climate Change, Environment

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Local and regional studies

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world.

Sustainable agrifood systems are critical to averting climate-driven social and ecological disasters, overcoming the growth paradigm and redefining the interactions of humanity and nature in the twenty-first century. This Perspective describes an agenda and examples for comprehensive agrifood system redesign according to principles of sufficiency, regeneration, distribution, commons and care. This redesign should be supported by coordinated education and research efforts that do not simply replicate dominant d…

Topics: Consumption, Environment

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

Quiet sustainability: Fertile lessons from Europe's productive gardeners.

This paper investigates notable examples of sustainable lifestyles in relation to food systems. It explores the surprisingly neglected case of widely practiced and environmentally sustainable food self-provisioning in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. Our argument is rooted in qualitative and quantitative data gathered over a seven-year period (2005–2011). The research considers the extent of and motivations for these practices in Poland and Czechia.…

Topics: Consumption, Environment, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Sustainability and the "urban peasant": rethinking the cultural politics of food self-provisioning in the Czech Republic.

This chapter introduces different explanations for high rates of growing and sharing food outside the market system in the Czech Republic based in social anthropological research. The authors have extended that work with their own qualitative and quantitative research over a period of six years in the Czech Republic, and here present findings that confirm the contribution that food self-provisioning is making to both the social and ecological sustainability.…

Topics: Climate Change, Consumption, Environment

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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National parliaments’ role in the fight against corruption

The new way of doing politics in times of elections

A new age of party democracy

The Technocratic Populist Loop: Clashes Between Parliamentary and Popular Sovereignty in EU’s Eastern and Southern Periphery

The ‘silent guardians’ in the fight against corruption: the case of North Macedonia

Legitimation strategies and national parliaments: The case of anti-corruption Emilija Tudjarovska

Geopolitical Change and EU Enlargement: Learning from the Past What lessons can the EU learn from past enlargement and accession policies?

Women and employment: advances and challenges in policies for women's labour-force participation in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of the post-pandemic recovery

Sympoietic growth: living and producing with fungi in times of ecological distress

Život podle ZOE: přísliby a meze výzkumu více-než-lidské jedinečnosti

Přepisování viru: Jak věda dělá skutečnost (nejen) v době epidemického rozrušení

Dobrá praxe rovného odměňování na Islandu

Rodičovství a genderové mzdové rozdíly ve vybraných kontextech trhu práce před pandemií covidu-19 a na jejím začátku

Prodlužující se pracovní dráhy, digitalizace, propouštění a gender v peněžnictví

“We Are in Control”: Instagram Influencers and the Proliferation of Conspiracy Narratives in Digital Spaces

Výzkum ukázal, že se české domácnosti v důsledku pandemie více spoléhají na místní zdroje

Škola jako integrační partner

Ups and downs in finance, ups without downs in inequality

Právní aspekty problematiky genderově podmíněného násilí na vysokých školách

The role of experts in forming family policy under an adversarial subsystem in the Czech Republic

Gender a změny v dělbě práce v domácnostech s dětmi v době pandemie covidu-19

The space behind the garden: Inconspicuous land-related care in Czechia

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world.

Quiet sustainability: Fertile lessons from Europe's productive gardeners.

Sustainability and the "urban peasant": rethinking the cultural politics of food self-provisioning in the Czech Republic.

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