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From Strictness to Maternal Intuition? Parenting Styles in Czechia from a Historical Perspective.
This article analyses parenting styles on the basis of thirty-three narrative interviews with mothers from Czechia who raised their children between the 1950s and 1990s. This comparison of different generations has revealed a shift from authoritarian to authoritative parenting styles, including a move from an emphasis on independence, obedience, and the provision of basic physical needs to more child-centered parenting emphasizing an emotional relationship with the child, negotiation, and the child’s psychol…
Regularity and Instability. Coalition Governments in Czechia 2008-2022.
The chapter is part of the study of coalitions and coalition governance in Central and Eastern European democracies up to date, with an analytical focus framed by difficult economic and social periods, such as the end of the economic crisis and the Coronavirus pandemic.Between 2008 and 2021, Czechia held four parliamentary elections but had nine governments. With one exception (Babiš I), all governments were different types of coalitions, and only two served a full term. The period under study was plagued by …
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Interaction Between Government and Parliamentary Opposition in the Czech Republic.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on parliamentary activities have recently become a trending topic. The pandemic presented both challenges and opportunities for governments and parliaments. During times of crisis, government-parliament and government-opposition relations can result in contrasting expectations and outcomes with regard to democratic norms. While consensus on crisis measures between governments and opposition parties can increase public trust and legitimacy, criticism by the opposition is es…
Czechia Report: Sustainable Governance Indicators 2024
The study evaluates the sustainability of policymaking and the quality of democratic governance in the areas of economic, social and environmental policy in the Czech Republic during 2022 and 2023 years. It is a part of the project. The Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) is a comprehensive monitoring instrument developed to facilitate transitions towards sustainable governance models that foster well-being within planetary boundaries and promote effective, accountable, and inclusive state institutions acr…
The Disruptive Effects of Polarization on the Law-Making Process.
The article explores the disruptive impact of extreme political polarisation on parliamentary (and legislative) activity. Notable phenomena in a polarised parliament include the frequent use of filibusters, midnight sessions, and numerous special sessions. These occurrences, while strengthening the legislature's position, particularly empower the opposition. In the Czech Republic, a country marked by antagonistic politics, populism, and 'anti-populism', such strong polarisation can effectively block parliament…
Nature-friendly reclamation of mines and quarries
The AVex expert opinion Nature-friendly reclamation of mines and quarries draws attention to the importance of natural processes in mine and quarry reclamation. Current reclamation approaches aim to restore the landscape as quickly as possible at a high financial cost. However, leaving spoil heaps to their own succession allows the development of long-term sustainable ecosystems with many rare species, while helping to meet the Nature Restoration Law, the EU's nature restoration regulation. The Czech public ge…
Topics: Environment
The Czech Republic
Článek je pravidelným příspěvkem do Ročenky vydaváné jako součást časopisu European Journal of Political Research. Popisuje politické změny v ČR v průběhu roku 2010. Článek se zaměřuje na takové otázky, jako změny ve vládě, politické strany a hlavní témata politiky.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage
When social and spatial disadvantages meet, are they doubled? Empirical studies have convincingly demonstrated that disadvantages tend to accumulate. Our paper advances this scholarship by focusing on the under-researched issue of social positions, subjective perspectives, and agency among single mothers in rural peripheries characterized by weak labor markets and accessibility issues. Drawing from problem-centered interviews conducted in eastern Germany and Czechia, we investigate how single mothers perceive …
Topics: Gender, City and Village, Social Inequalities
Obedient mothers, healthy children: communication on the risks of reproduction in state-socialist Czechoslovakia
The article analyses medical communication in popular media relating to the risks in reproduction in the state-socialist Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989 and shows how it used emotions as an instrument to control women’s reproductive behaviour. In particular, we use an approach inspired by Donati’s (1992) political discourse analysis and by Snow and Bedford’s (1988) framing analysis to explore communication on the risk of infertility in the abortion debate, the risk of fetal abnormalities in the pren…
What happened to my time during the COVID-19 lockdown? Parents’ subversive temporal regime strategies and their potential beyond the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted individuals to devise new temporal strategies in various spheres of their lives as a result of the spatial regulations imposed during the first lockdown. We apply Lisa Suckert’s theoretical model of ‘the capitalist time regime’ in the analysis of 68 interviews with parents of schoolchildren in seven European countries conducted during the first COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020. We examine actors’ agency and capability to govern time during the pandemic and the extent to w…
Czech Parents Under Lockdown: Different Positions, Different Temporalities
Using an intersectional approach, we explore how parents in the Czech Republic coped with the increased demands of childcare and how their perceptions of childcare changed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Building on Nancy Fraser’s theory of the social contradiction of capitalism, we address the question of whether the pandemic situation can be viewed as an opportunity to increase recognition of care. Qualitative interviews with parents from various socioeconomic backgrounds conducted from spring 2020 to su…
Sexual and gender-based harassment at universities - the analysis of annual university reports for 2023
This study examines the approach to addressing sexual and gender-based harassment by analysing information reported in the 2023 annual reports of 25 public universities in the Czech Republic. It investigates the measures universities report, how they fulfil the requirements of the 7P model (Prevalence, Prevention, Support, Prosecution, Service Provision, Partnerships, and Policies) and the Minimum standard for a safe environment for high-quality, sustainable, and independent research and educational activities…
Topics: Gender, Interpersonal Relations, Education
Publication Type: Other Publication
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
Beyond income poverty: Subjective poverty and indebtedness
This research note examines some aspects of the financial situation of households and individuals that are not captured by the at-risk-of-poverty rate, an indicator based solely on household income. Although income is a crucial factor for a household’s financial situation and economic well-being, the dimensions of costs, expenses and liabilities are no less important, especially with the current global challenges of rising energy prices and overall inflation. Using the EU-SILC 2020 data (module on ‘over-in…
Topics: European Union, Debts, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Standard of Living
Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph
Department: Economic and Religious Studies
Post/socialist chemical research: a gendered politics of visual representation
This article explores changes to the strongly gendered politics of representation in applied chemical research using visual material from company magazines of Czech-based chemical plants (1969–2000). This representation overlaps with identified developments in the gender order and how these relate to the disputed Cold War discourse. The focus on visual representations gives us a novel perspective on the intersection of technology, gender and geopolitics and what it can tell us about the ways in which competi…
Topics: Gender, Sociology of Sciences, Technology and society
Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
Identita a budoucnost Církve československé husitské. Sociologická sonda
Topics: Religion and religiosity
Hesla J. Kohn, E. Lány, J. Mertl, J. Michejda, V. Míčan, W. Stark, P. Šimek, R. Teltšík, Z. Ullrich.
Topics: History of Sociology
Urban Newcomers as Candidates in Rural Municipal Elections: Explorations in the Political Dimension of Lifestyle Migration
The lived experience and the transformative effects of urban-to-rural lifestyle migration are key research interests of rural studies, but we know little about what happens when urban dwellers make use of their local voting rights after relocating to rural areas. The paper presents insights from ethnographic explorations in a peripherialized rural region of Czechia in which social and spatial disadvantages intersect. Using an agency framework to bring the scholarship of lifestyle migration into conversation wi…
Topics: Elites, City and Village, Migration and Mobility
New Technologies, Older Workers in Banking and Nursing
The article examines how technological change and organisational restructuring interacts with population ageing and policies that extend working life, and how older workers understand these trends. Using organisational and contextual approaches and qualitative research on nurses and bankers in Czechia, we investigate older workers' experiences with digitalisation. The age disadvantage older workers experience in digitalising workplaces is produced by three processes: responsibilisation, production of insecurit…
Topics: Digitalization, Gender, Technology and society, Age and Aging
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…
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