Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(2)
Beyond the Housing Crisis: Concepts, Contexts, Conversations and Critiques

Za krizí bydlení: koncepty, kontexty, konverzace a kritika

Terezie Lokšová, Tomáš Hoření Samec

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(2): 117-122  

Housing as an Exception, Eviction as Everyday Life

Pavel Doboš, Kristina Jamrichová, Jakub Mácha, Ondřej Mohyla, Roman Novotný, Martina Růžičková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(2): 123-147 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.028  

This article focuses on evictability and the eviction of the residents of one block of flats in a small southern Slovakian town. Most of the building's inhabitants are Roma, but the problem of cultural racism is interconnected with political, economic, legal, and even research and activist issues. The article is based on socially committed ethnographic research and the perspective of critical human geography. The theoretical framework is informed by the geographies of eviction, which grasp evictions as a becoming affective process. In this approach the focus is on not just the structural and other causes of eviction and its negative consequences but...

The 'Housing First' Assemblage: An Example of 'Rapid Re-Housing for Homeless Families with Children' in the City of Brno

Petr Kubala, Eliška Černá, Štěpán Ripka, Ondřej Krčál, Rostislav Staněk

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(2): 149-171 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.025  

Using the example of a Rapid Re-Housing project, this article aims to open up a more general social-scientific debate within the context of critical discussions about ending homelessness in the Czech Republic. It at the same time seeks to refine the usage of the 'urban assemblages' concept in sociological and anthropological research. A Rapid Re-Housing project was piloted in Brno in 2016-2018. Its objective was to house 50 families in need of housing in municipal apartments and to provide social support in the form of intensive case management. The project included a randomised controlled trial and a qualitative evaluation. This research showed that...

Participatory Housing: A New Conceptual Framework for Democratic Forms of Housing in the Czech Republic

Jan Malý Blažek, Tomáš Hoření Samec, Petr Kubala, Václav Orcígr

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(2): 173-195 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.029  

In recent years, in response to the increasing unaffordability of housing, many European countries have seen a renewed interest in forms of housing that emphasise elements of cooperation, self-organisation, and sharing (of space, organisation, or ownership between households). In the Czech Republic, we recently identified the first efforts of some municipalities and smaller groups of citizens to transpose this 'housing innovation' into the Czech context, which until now has predominantly favoured individual owner-occupied housing. Considering that these emerging forms of housing in the Czech Republic have yet to be conceptualised in theory, the goal...

'We'd Hoped That the Flat Would Be Ours One Day': The Fight for Fair Privatisation in the Moje Pisnice Initiative

Jakub Černý, Yuliya Moskvina, Ludmila Böhmová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(2): 197-219 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.023  

In this article, we analyse the conditions behind the formation of the tenant initiative Moje Písnice, which existed in Prague between 2016 and 2020. In the theoretical part, we explain the concepts of urban movements and tenant movements in Central and Eastern Europe and emphasise the role of everyday life and emotions in the genesis of a collective actor. We use qualitative methodology based on an analysis of 12 in-depth semi-structured interviews with members and one supporter of the Moje Pisnice Initiative. This initiative provides an illustration of the formation of collective actors in the urban space in Central and Eastern Europe. We focus specifically...

O politické ekonomii bydlení: Rozhovor s Manuelem Aalbersem a Steffenem Wetzsteinem

Václav Walach

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(2): 221-229  

Pro řešení krize bydlení nestačí reformovat kapitalismus: Rozhovor s Markem Gottdienerem

Václav Orcígr

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(2): 231-236  

O kontextech a konceptech aneb parhessia ke knize Na jedné lodi

Petr Vašát

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(2): 243-250  

Petr Vašát: Na jedné lodi: globalizace a bezdomovectví v českém měste

Blanka Kissová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(2): 237-241  

Pražský trh s nájemním bydlením suplovat nedostatek sociálních bytů nedokáže: Zpráva z realizace projektu „Aplikace inovačního nástroje – Zabydlování v podmínkách tržního prostředí hlavního města Praha“

Magdaléna Trusinová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(2): 251-255