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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…
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
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