In the last three decades, Karlovy Vary has been the main destination for Russians in Czechia (besides Prague) in terms of residential, investment and tourist attractiveness. This has affected many aspects of its life. Presence of foreign inhabitants, businessmen and tourists change the composition of the population according to citizenship, property structure of real estates, their physical condition and use, or international tourism and the related orientation of local economic activities.
Topic: housing, identity, urban and rural studies, migration and mobility, public administration
This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016. The book compares these results with those of a similar survey conducted ten years ago.
Topic: elites, public administration
The chapter presents the development of the position of leisure and work in the value system of the population of the Czech and Slovak Republics between 1991 and 2017, then focuses on the selected characteristics of leisure and work in more detail and shows how many hours the inhabitants of the Czech and Slovak Republics spend at work, how their work affects their personal and family life and whether they have enough time for their hobbies and interests.
Topic: work, lifestyle
The article focuses on self-reliance and DIY in eco-gardens. Self-reliance does not only includes food self-provisioning, but also housing, energy, making objects for everyday use, healing and homeschooling.
Topic: housing, klimatická změna, urban and rural studies, consumption, životní prostředí, lifestyle
Collective 'uprooting', 'sick' villages and a new rural generation: Symbolic distinctions of Lifestyle migrants in the Czech borderlands. The paper adds to the debate on rural transformation and social differentiation through privileged mobility and migration.
Topic: kultura, urban and rural studies, migration and mobility, social inequalities, lifestyle
The article focuses on arrangements of family life in rural peripheries and deals with the specific constraints faced by families with children in peripheral localities. The impact of the peripheral residential environment in terms of locally embodied opportunities on the parental choices and its interactions with familial ambitions and resources is highlighted, particularly in three domains: elementary school choice, extracurricular activities, care-work reconciliation.
Topic: housing, urban and rural studies, regions, parenting, family
Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe rarely find their way into the debate on rural gender inequality. In this article, I aim to mitigate this imbalance by exploring everyday arrangements of women with dependent children in a peripheralised rural region of the Czech Republic.
Topic: gender, urban and rural studies, parenting, social inequalities
This paper is summarising the state of the art of rural poverty and social exclusion research and the current developments in the field, and it proposes new research agendas. In particular, the importance of further Europeanisation and internationalisation of rural poverty research is emphasised to reduce the bias and oversimplification inherent in the tendency to apply concepts derived from the Anglo-Saxon reality to other European countries.
Topic: economics, urban and rural studies, regions, social inequalities
This article contributes to explanations of rural poverty and deprivation by focusing on the rural–urban poverty and deprivation gap in European countries.
Topic: economics, urban and rural studies, regions, social inequalities
The aim of this article is to show the development of the perception of leisure and work or their ideal in different stages of human history, focusing primarily on the situation in so-called Western culture.
Topic: lifestyle
Článek, který je kvalitativní studií příčin volebního chování a dalším příspěvkem do široké diskuse na téma vlivu lokálního prostředí na volební chování jedince, vychází z analýzy 9 skupinových diskusí (focus groups) a 44 rozhovorů provedených v desíti lokalitách v Česku.
Topic: elections (and polls)
The aim of this article is to investigate the factors that influence the size of activity spaces of homeless men and women in cities. Vulnerable population groups such as the homeless face the risk of mobility challenges that can exacerbate their social exclusion even more through mobility-driven spatial exclusion. The extent of an individual’'s activity space is a key precondition for the daily coping strategies and life opportunities of homeless people.
Topic: urban and rural studies, methodology, migration and mobility, social inequalities, social policy
Over the past few years, the topic of social housing has dominated the Czech professional and non-professional debate on homelessness. All experts agree that social housing in the Czech Republic is a necessity. However, one dangerous theme circulates in the discussion: homelessness is reduced to housing, and the debate evokes it can be simply resolve by the existence of social housing.
Topic: housing, economics, globalisation, wages and incomes, work, social inequalities, sociologická teorie, transformation
Cultural consumption and social distinction in the Czech Republic in P. Zahrádka (ed.). 2014. Consumer culture: history, theory and research. Praha: ACADEMIA.
Topic: kultura, social inequalities, consumption
This article informs about the results of an ongoing sociological research on local responses to climate change that appear in the Czech context. The argument departs from a qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with experts whose professional work relates to researching or informing about climate change and to formulation of adaptation measures and responses to climate change, or to environmental policy-making in general.
Topic: klimatická změna
On the basis of the discussion between cultural and institutional theories, and taking into account the specific development in post-communist countries, we study three elements of the democratic system - specifically, social trust, institutional trust, and systemic trust (legitimacy of democracy). Using data from the European Values Study, conducted in 1991, 1999 and 2008, we analyze the roots of institutional trust and systemic trust (i.e.
Topic: trust/social cohesion, legitimacy, civil society, politics (and political attitudes)
Topic: klimatická změna, civil society, životní prostředí
In this article, we argue that similarly to the literature on urban neighbourhood effects, the idea of disadvantaging residential environment can be used to explain the socio-economic disadvantage of residents in rural peripheries. We present arguments as to why it is appropriate to consider the effects of the residential environment in a micro-regional perspective and outside of metropolitan areas. These effects are empirically analysed using income related data from the Czech Republic.
Topic: economics, urban and rural studies, wages and incomes, regions, social inequalities
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a survey method used to create samples of populations that are hidden and hard to reach. Even though the method has been used since the 1990s in studies internationally, it has not yet been used in Czech research.
Topic: housing, methodology, social inequalities, sociological data
This study investigates socioeconomic peripherality in Hungary and Czechia. Despite the current attention devoted to peripheries in post-communist societies, the authors argue that there is a lack of data-driven international comparisons of the socio-spatial outcomes of peripheralisation processes.
Topic: urban and rural studies, methodology, wages and incomes, social inequalities
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