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Read a note from Anja Decker's research on #informal interventions beyond one's property. Unspectacular, #inconspicuous #practices with a tangible #impact. A summer read! Czech Academy of Sciences cescame.soc.cas.cz/research-outco…

Three members of CESCAME.bsky.social - Slávka Ferenčuhová, @LoksovaTerezie & myself will present their recent research at @AfterCities's #CATference on 28 & 29 June.

'Enduring the city? How to do social change with promises' - a thought-provoking talk by Alexa Färber at the CESCAME.bsky.social seminar in Prague 🇨🇿 yesterday. Next seminar: L. Rekhviashvili 'Why won't urban #informality disappear?' on 12 Oct. Register: bit.ly/3dxf5Ji

If you wanted but couldn't join Alexa Färber 's lecture on #urban #promises organised by CESCAME at Sociologický ústav AV ČR, you can now watch it on our website or on our youtube channel: youtu.be/UsAZwhM0qFU

Why won't urban #informality disappear? Lela Rekhviashvili will visit us next week to talk about #marketisation, social #embeddedness and shifting spaces of informality in urban #mobility. Join us in person or online, 12. 10., 2 pm CET. Register here: cescame.soc.cas.cz/events/cescame…

Remembering the last week's visit: 3/4 of #CESCAME and Lela Rekhviashvili from Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde . In case you wanted to but did not manage to join Lela's lecture on #informality, #marketisation and #embeddedness, look forward the video record, we will upload it soon.

As promised, on the link below is the video recording of Lela Rekhviashvili's lecture held in Prague at Sociologický ústav AV ČR on #urban #informality, #embeddedness and #marketisation (not only) in urban #mobility Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde youtube.com/watch?v=NRHeWS…

Kolik sklizní nás ještě čeká při stávajícím modelu zemědělství? Může být zahrádkaření dobrou alternativou k destruktivní produkci potravin? A co vše je potřeba změnit, abychom na naší planetě přežili? Petr Jehlička 🇨🇿 (petrjehlicka.bsky.social) ceskepodcasty.cz/episode/8KM4DZ…

Začátkem prosince v rámci našich čtvrtečních sociologických seminářů vystoupí Anja Decker a Tomáš Hoření Samec s tématem dlužníků a Mathias Sosnowski Krabbe s tématem odolnosti vůči (semi)periferní financializaci: soc.cas.cz/akce/navigatin…

Excited to share our new paper in Journal of Rural Studies, in which Susann Bischof and I investigate resident-municipality relations in rural peripheries through the lens of ascriptions of responsibility. Open access until 08/02/2023 authors.elsevier.com/a/1gHhT2eyKFnl…

If you happen to be in Berlin on February 3 and share my interest in #rural peripheries, #informality, alternative #FoodSystems, and lifestyle migration…

I really hope I will be able to join the @AfterCities conference in Riga. The dates have just been announced: 18.-22.9. Is anyone else considering going?

What an inspiring writing retreat with my fellow ⁦CESCAME.bsky.social⁩ colleague ⁦Petr Jehlička 🇨🇿 (petrjehlicka.bsky.social)⁩ and our friends from the Community Economies Research Network (CERN).

@HHaukanes's talk online & F2F on 'people’s daily #food practices, food self-provisioning, and on the #sharing of food within and among families' - a continuation of #ethnographic research that started in the 1990s. Thurs 27 April, 2 pm CET soc.cas.cz/akce/food-ever…

Přečtěte si rozhovor se sociálním pracovníkem roku Pavlem Velemanem. Není to lehké čtení, ale rozhodně to stojí za to. a2larm.cz/2023/04/zacina…

Tady je shrnutí dané studie paqresearch.cz/post/segregace…

Britpop oddballs? The correct answer at that time to “Blur or Oasis?” was always “Pulp of course”. A great great band. theguardian.com/music/2023/may…

The Czech Academy of Sciences stands in solidarity with our friends and colleagues in the academic community and all those impacted by today’s violent attack at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. We extend our condolences to the bereaved, and our thoughts are with everyone

Our paper on personal bankruptcy and debtor agency has just been published in the Journal of Cultural Economy. It can be of interest to those working on financialization, but also to scholars interested in a broader sense in notions of agency under conditions of predátory.