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Opportunities and limits of socially and environmentally sustainable participatory housing in the Czech Republic
Orcígr, V. ; Kodenko Kubala, Petr ; Malý Blažek, J. ; Hoření Samec, Tomáš ; Kubcová, J. ; Káňová, M. ; Tichý, D. ; Kohout, M. ; Vinklárková, A. ; Houser, L. ; Suchánek, R. ; Petrus, E. ; Galčanová, L.
The research report summarises three years of research of opportunities and limits of participatory housing in the Czech Republic, based on an analysis of the situation abroad, the historical context and the institutional background in the Czech Republic. In the second part we present the results of field research - data analysis from research workshops in partner cities and from an exploratory questionnaire. We present findings on residents' preferences on participation issues, confidence in implementing participatory housing projects, funding issues, governance, barriers or challenges. In the final section, we summarise the opportunities and limitations for participatory housing arising from the cooperation between residents and cities.
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Residential mobility and residential preferences of young families and older adults from the Prague Metropolitan Area
Horňáková, Marie ; Špačková, Petra (advisor) ; Kostelecký, Tomáš (referee) ; Hoření Samec, Tomáš (referee)
The dissertation project examines the process of residential mobility and residential preferences in the Prague Metropolitan Area. With the diversification of life-course trajectories and lifestyles, but also rising housing prices, residential mobility and residential preferences have become more heterogeneous and ambiguous. The research aims to investigate new emerging patterns of residential mobility and residential preferences, and to explore how the selection of a new home is performed. The study focuses on two population groups: middle-class young families and middle-class older adults (empty nesters, seniors). A mixed-method research approach is adopted, combining quantitative and qualitative research methods. The study contributes to filling the gap in knowledge on residential mobility in post-socialist cities and the process of housing choice among young families and older adults.
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The Construction of Authenticity on the Czech Drum and Bass Scene from the Perspective of Its Creators
Valášková, Johanka ; Oravcová, Anna (advisor) ; Samec, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the construction of authenticity of the Czech Drum and bass scene. The thesis focuses on its creators - DJs, producers and managers of Drum and bass events. The research is supported by cultural studies theories, which describe different aspects of the perception of authenticity. Following chapters focus on the development of electronic music and Drum and bass style in particular. The practical part begins with the description of qualitative research, within which five semi-structured interviews have been conducted. The main goal this thesis is to look at the perceptions of authenticity within the Czech Drum and bass scene (its creators as well as the audience), and outside the scene (relationships between Drum and bass scene and the public).
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Discursive construction and materiality of debt in context of housing
Samec, Tomáš ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Szaló, Csaba (referee) ; Pospěch, Pavel (referee)
Housing debts have become fuel for the global economy, having been turned into tradable commodities on the financial markets. However, housing debts also have a profound relevance in the everyday life of those who have become indebted, enabling the dream of homeownership, but also leading to foreclosures and evictions. This thesis aims to take a rather under-researched perspective on formal and informal housing debts (i.e., mortgages and familial loans) by exploring the role of public and domestic discourses in, what is termed, the financialisation of housing. The financialisation of housing refers to the process of real estate being turned into assets and commodities and to the spread of individualised financial products being used to secure housing. The thesis uses the Czech Republic as a case through which to examine how discourse may enable this transition and how contribute to a specific financial governmentality. The thesis raises questions: How is it possible that mortgages come to be perceived as a normal and natural solution to housing issues? How do they become part of the debtors' lives through certain discourses? These questions are explored through an innovative framework of layered performativity, encompassing rhetoric, sociotechnical devices, and references to practices that reveal three main...
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Consumer behaviour difference among young people (city and countryside).
Samec, Tomáš ; Šanderová, Jadwiga (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
Issues of material, cultural and relationship consuption in context of late modern society are being discussed in the thesis. Differences between the social context of city and rural areas are used to describe social functions of consumption. At first consumption is defined in sociological terms using the literature. Thesis contains basic theoretical approaches dealing with consumption. Major interest is being put on analytical part of thesis, which shows findings of research. Research is divided into two parts. Qualitative part with data from semi-structured interviews, which are used to create concepts and hypothesis in order to test them in quantitative part with questionners. Research is a case study and findings and interpretations can not be generalized to whole population of young people. Data provide solid empirical conclusion and hypothesis though. My findings support idea of consuption as complex and ambivalent social phenomenon related to individualization process. Yet another social functions of consuption are revealed in thesis. Consuption as a device to define and redefine identity of individual. Normative aspect of consumption, which express itself in social groups norms. Significance of structural differences between both social context for individual's action with link to cultural and...
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Media Representations of the Housing Crisis
Krtička, Jan ; Samec, Tomáš (advisor) ; Sládek, Jan (referee)
Discourse analysis is used in this thesis to study media representations of Prague's housing crisis during the years 2016-2018. Focus of the analysis itself is on the specific use of rhetoric, references and framing in individual texts-in relation to wider institutional context. Theoretically is the thesis based on British critical housing studies and N. Fairclough's approach to discourse analysis. Two specific discourse types were identified in the set period, described as deregulatory discourse type and protective discourse type. These two discourse types differed both in the definition of the crises itself and in specific use of lines of argument - constructing images of main subjects responsible for the crisis itself and for its solutions. Deregulatory discourse type was dominating the media in the studied period, while the protective discourse type constituted a critical opposition. Keywords Housing crisis, housing, media, representations, discourse, discourse analysis
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Discursive construction and materiality of debt in context of housing
Samec, Tomáš ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Szaló, Csaba (referee) ; Pospěch, Pavel (referee)
Housing debts have become fuel for the global economy, having been turned into tradable commodities on the financial markets. However, housing debts also have a profound relevance in the everyday life of those who have become indebted, enabling the dream of homeownership, but also leading to foreclosures and evictions. This thesis aims to take a rather under-researched perspective on formal and informal housing debts (i.e., mortgages and familial loans) by exploring the role of public and domestic discourses in, what is termed, the financialisation of housing. The financialisation of housing refers to the process of real estate being turned into assets and commodities and to the spread of individualised financial products being used to secure housing. The thesis uses the Czech Republic as a case through which to examine how discourse may enable this transition and how contribute to a specific financial governmentality. The thesis raises questions: How is it possible that mortgages come to be perceived as a normal and natural solution to housing issues? How do they become part of the debtors' lives through certain discourses? These questions are explored through an innovative framework of layered performativity, encompassing rhetoric, sociotechnical devices, and references to practices that reveal three main...
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The Construction of Authenticity on the Czech Drum and Bass Scene from the Perspective of Its Creators
Valášková, Johanka ; Oravcová, Anna (advisor) ; Samec, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the construction of authenticity of the Czech Drum and bass scene. The thesis focuses on its creators - DJs, producers and managers of Drum and bass events. The research is supported by cultural studies theories, which describe different aspects of the perception of authenticity. Following chapters focus on the development of electronic music and Drum and bass style in particular. The practical part begins with the description of qualitative research, within which five semi-structured interviews have been conducted. The main goal this thesis is to look at the perceptions of authenticity within the Czech Drum and bass scene (its creators as well as the audience), and outside the scene (relationships between Drum and bass scene and the public).
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Womb for rent as a new reproductive technology in the Czech Republic
Kozlovská, Tereza ; Hrešanová, Ema (advisor) ; Samec, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the practice of surrogate motherhood in the Czech Republic, often labelled as "a womb renting". The aim of the thesis is to get a more in-depth insight into the given issue and to find out whether and how surrogate motherhood is practiced in our country due to the lack of research on this issue in the Czech context. The thesis is divided into four parts and the theoretical part introduces the theory of new reproductive technologies and related key concepts from the anthropology of kinship and human reproduction. The methodological part is a description of research, methods used and data collection. The research included an analysis of online discussions and interviews with seven informants that were conducted by various methods relative to the subject's sensitivity. The analytical part is divided into five parts that reflect the key parts of the process of surrogate motherhood, namely naming, searching, medical procedures, relationships and finance. The research shows the importance of reproductive history of surrogate mothers, which influences the process of the substitute motherhood from the very beginning. The experience of informants takes place mainly at health facilities in Brno, Prague or Zlín, others are not much talked about. In Czech context, an acceptable...
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Regional Identity and Symbolic Borders between "Us and Them": Case Study Hrdlovka's Demolition Effect on Osek
Frantová, Ivana ; Šanderová, Jadwiga (advisor) ; Samec, Tomáš (referee)
Regional Identity and Symbolic Borders between "Us and Them": Case Study Hrdlovka's Demolition Effect on Osek Abstract The bachelors work focuses on the creation of regional identity and symbolic borders between "Us and Them" on the Osek city example, where 2000 people from the Hrdlovka village moved in. Hrdlovka was demolished for brown coal mining purposes. The approach of my work was to find out what factors are influencing the creation of an identity attached to a specific location based on which a symbolic "Us and them" border between the initial Osek and initial Hrdlovka inhabitants was formed. Further on I examined, if there is a relationship between regional identity and symbolic borders. The results of the quantitative research, which is mainly based on in-depth interviews, indicate that regional identity is being formed depending on the time spent in one place, city of origin, age of respondent, life and environmental conditions, collective awareness and relationship which identify ourselves in the given location. Symbolic borders arise only in situations where the location-attached regional identity is threatened. Symbolic borders of the inhabitants of both Hrdlovka and Osek raised from differences in their regional identity which means there is a direct relationship between them. The whole work...
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