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The role of experts in forming family policy under an adversarial subsystem in the Czech Republic
Topics: Gender, Parenting, Social Policy
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
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
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
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
From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self-provisioning.
While alternative food networks (AFNs) have become the leading conceptualisation of sustainable food systems, vibrant scholarship on food self-provisioning (FSP) in Central and Eastern Europe has remained confined to the geopolitical region it investigates. This article brings these two bodies of thought closer together in two steps. First, we trace four framings of FSP deployed over the last three decades—coping strategy, cultural practice, hobby and source of good food and reading FSP as transformative pra…
Topics: Climate Change, Consumption, Environment
Rezidenční kontext a různé formy nerovností – sociologické perspektivy.
The chapter presents various theoretical conceptualizations of the links between the characteristics of the residential environment and social inequalities, the mechanisms of spatial inequalities and the issue of rural poverty.…
Topics: City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities
Příjmy v periferiích
The chapter is an analysis of income inequalities in spatial perspective. In particular, it shows that the inhabitants of rural peripheries are disadvantaged by income.…
Topics: Wages and Incomes, Regions, Social Inequalities
Dodatek: Jak jsme zkoumali periferie? Metodologické postupy využité při výzkumu
The chapter is an overview of the methodological approaches used in the book Nothing happens here.…
Topics: Research Methodology
Kde je v Česku periferní venkov?
The basic aim of the chapter is delimitation of peripheral areas representing rural regions characterized by worsened living conditions or increased levels of various forms of social disadvantage. For this purpose, we use existing statistical data collected by the Czech Statistical Office or various state administration bodies available for small territorial units. The approach to defining peripheral regions is based on the assumption that the concept of disadvantage is multidimensional. There are several diff…
Topics: Regions, Social Inequalities
„Vlastně dělám toho taxikáře, musím ty děti rozvážet“: Rodiny, péče o děti a problém skloubení péče a zaměstnání v periferiích.
The chapter focuses on the obstacles that parents taking care of children have to cope with in rural peripheries. It shows that the complicated traffic situation, the underdeveloped offer of childcare, as well as the smaller variety of schools and leisure activities, as well as the smaller choice of employment reduce choices and complicate the reconciliation of care and work.…
Topics: Care, Work, Regions, Social Inequalities
Prekérní práce na periferním venkově.
Kapitola je kvalitativní studií prekérní práce v periferních regionech a strategií, jež na trhu práce uplatňují lidé žijící v periferiích, kteří obtížně nacházejí pracovní uplatnění. Z analýzy rozhovorů vyplývá, že omezená nabídka pracovních příležitostí v regionu a zejména obtížná dosažitelnost práce snižují možnosti výběru práce a omezují volby variant pro lidi žijící v periferních oblastech. Ve spojení s individuálními handicapy vedou tyto faktory č…
Topics: Work, Regions, Social Inequalities
Spokojenost se životem ve venkovských periferiích.
In the chapter the spatial differentiation of residential satisfaction with different aspects of life is presented. An analysis based on data from a 2016 survey on peripheral areas shows that satisfaction of people living in rural peripheries is actually lower than in cities, but also lower than in other rural places. People are less satisfied with the local infrastructure and feel less safe. They also rate relationships between people in locality as worse.…
Topics: City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities
Retirees are also stratified: pre-retirement socio-occupational status and the well-being of older adults in Central Europe
Most stratification research concerns solely the economically active population and omits inactive seniors. Retirees are often treated as a separate and rather homogeneous social category. However, this approach is only partially valid. Retirees can still be differentiated in regard to their objective and subjective well-being, which is linked to their former occupations. Using large EU-SILC datasets for Central European countries, this article focuses on the effect of pre-retirement socio-occupational categor…
Topics: Social Inequalities, Age and Aging, Standard of Living
Střední školy v regionech Česka: ovlivňuje periferní poloha nabídku škol, poptávku po nich a úspěšnost jejich studentů?
The chapter examines the geographic factors that influence supply and demand for different types of secondary schools, and the results that secondary school students achieve in state school-leaving examinations. The authors show that Czech regions differ from each other by the structure of supply of secondary school education, but also by the demand for different types of education. However, regional differences in educational outcomes are relatively low when the results of students from the same type of schoo…
Topics: City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities, Education
Analyzing social disadvantage in rural peripheries in Czechia and Eastern Germany: Conceptual model and study design.
The aim of this Working Paper is to introduce a conceptual model and study design forresearching social disadvantage in rural peripheries, focusing on the interplay of socialdisadvantage and spatial disadvantage. The paper presents the theoretical concepts,understandings, and definitions, as well as the research design we draw on in the internationalresearch project ‘Social disadvantage in rural peripheries in Czechia and eastern Germany:opportunity structures and individual agency in a comparative perspecti…
Topics: City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities
European food systems in a regional perspective: A comparative study of the effect of COVID-19 on households and city-region food systems
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 food governance, especially regarding food resilience, vulnerability and justice. Given that evidence from good practices is relatively sparse, it is important to better understand the role of different types of cities, regions and house…
Topics: City and Village, Regions, Public health, Lifestyle
"Ethnographies of urban change: introducing homelessness and the post-socialist city."
Topics: City and Village
Dostupnost veřejnou dopravou: simulace využitelnosti veřejné dopravy v každodenních situacích
The article presents an innovative method of evaluating public transport accessibility. The evaluation is based on a simulation of the usability of public transport in real everyday situations. It measures the amount of time the residents of local communities need when they use public transport to reach various commonly used destinations at a specified time. The method’s main advantage is that it aims at reflecting everyday use of public transport. I demonstrate the use of the method by exploratory accessibi…
Topics: City and Village, Regions
Nerovnosti při přechodu na osmileté gymnázium: panelová studie žáků pražských a středočeských škol
Úspěšnost školáků v přechodu na akademickou větev vzdělávání je determinována sociokulturním zázemím v rodině, což dokumentují výzkumné studie většinou až v pozdějších fázích vzdělávací trajektorie při přechodu na terciární stupeň. V českém prostředí byla dosud jen malá pozornost věnována přechodu mezi základní školou a víceletým gymnáziem, tj. na konci prvního stupně základní školní docházky. Naše studie se proto zaměřuje na roli kulturních faktor…
Topics: Culture, Family, Social Inequalities, Education
Rozdíl v odměňování žen a mužů, efekt rodičovství a prekarity
Gender pay gap, parenthood and work precarity. The paper focuses on how parenthood(measured by the number of children) contributes to the high level of gender pay gap (GPG)in the Czech Republic and how is it shaped by precarious work contracts. The analysis isbased on a questionnaire survey of a representative sample of 1119 respondents aged 20 to55 years. Sequential testing of regression models proved that number of children affectssignificantly the size of a GPG, even after controlling for several factors. T…
Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes
Linked employer-employee data týkající se mezd a rodičovství: Dobrá praxe v zahraničí a právní analýza ČR
Publikace se zaměřuje na problematiku sběru dat umožňujících analýzu genderových rozdílů ve mzdách podle rodičovství. Zaměřuje se na to, jak by bylo možné upravit sběr dat ISPV (Informační systém o průměrném výdělku) o indikátory sledující rodičovství tak, aby bylo možné v českém kontextu systematicky sledovat vliv rodičovství na mzdy a genderové mzdové rozdíly. Jedná se o tzv. linked employer-employee (LEE) data, která propojující informace o konkrétních zaměst…
Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes
Better stories for a gender equal and fairer social recovery from outbreaks: learnings from the RESISTIRÉ project
The pandemic has radically shifted how society is organised, with increased work from home, home-schooling, and intensification of online presence, all with specific (un)intended implications on paid and unpaid care work. These implications, like those of other crises, are gendered and manifest along sex, age, disability, ethnicity/race, migration status, religion, social class, and the intersections between these inequalities. While many studies have identified these unequal and negative impacts, and point to…
Topics: Gender, Civil Society
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
Dual responsibilization for housing in a housing crisis: young adults in the Czech Republic
Young adults in various countries are experiencing deteriorating access to homeownership and affordable rental housing. Whereas many studies have focused on the shift of responsibility for housing from the state to individuals related to a meritocratic ideology, only recently have certain studies identified the ambiguity and incoherence as a significant principle in housing discourses. Responding to these, we analysed 31 narrative interviews and survey data on Czech young adults (aged 18–35), providing uniqu…
Topics: Housing, Intergenerational Relations, Social Inequalities
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