Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(5)
Sociology and the Social Theory of Dis/ability

Ne/způsobilost jako nová kategorie sociálních věd

Kateřina Kolářová, Filip Herza

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(5): 549-560  

The 'Assemblages' of Disability: An Affirmative Conception in a Deleuze-Guattarian Perspective

Hana Porkertová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(5): 561-586 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2019.55.5.477  

The article discusses the potential of Deleuze-Guattarian philosophy for studying disability. It draws on empirical research comprising interviews with and ethnographic observations regarding the visually impaired people, in which the concept of assemblage is used as a sociological tool to analyse the continuity and discontinuity of disability. An assemblage is made up of heterogenic, rhizomatic, and often unpredictable connections, both organic and inorganic and linguistic and material, that continuously transform each other. An assemblage is never finished but is always complete, which gives rise to the question of the relationship between a whole...

The Dis/ability Coordinates of the Critical Gesture and Matters of Care

Michal Synek, Dana Hradcová, Radek Carboch, Dita Jahodová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(5): 587-614 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2019.55.5.478  

Critique is one of the social sciences' most respectable tasks, especially when its aim is to emancipate people oppressed for their otherness. However, there is also a critique of critique as a disabling tool, replacing the obvious actors revealed as 'fictitious' with synthetic objects that the critic herself deems more 'factual'. This article understands the critical gesture as a pragmatic resource for re-organising the field of dis/abilities. In the first part of the article, we make three critical gestures together with José, a person identified as mentally ill. A paranoid vision of a secret conspiracy, a naturalising concept of disease, and the...

Experience, Expertise, and Users' Participation: The Case of the Czech Mental Health Care Reform

Petra A. Honová, Dino Numerato, Lucie Kondrátová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(5): 615-640 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2019.55.5.479  

This paper focuses on users' involvement in the reform of mental-health care in the Czech Republic, which, like in other countries, is connected with the destigmatisation of mental illness and the deinstitutionalisation of care. As part of the reform process, users' and caregivers' representatives were invited by the key stakeholders to participate in working groups, expert committees, and government bodies that associate users' and representatives of parents. At the same time, users and caregivers mobilised from below and participated in a number of bottom-up initiatives. Against this backdrop, this study set out to identify the main positions of...

'The Last Dance': Pain, Disability, and the Case of Jerika Bolen

Alyson Patsavas

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(5): 641-660 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2019.55.5.480  

In the summer of 2016, black, disabled, and gay 14-year-old Jerika Bolen announced her decision to die. The public conversation surrounding Bolen's decision, launched through a series of newspaper articles announcing a 'last dance' prom, offers a case-study through which to explore how pain frustrates an analysis of the biopolitical formations that shape both right-to-die discussions and decisions. In doing so, this article offers two interventions. It reveals how dominant views of pain and disability shape and limit how we make sense of Jerika's life and death. It also highlights the analytical leverage that this critical approach offers by reading...

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930-2019)

Stanislav Holubec

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(5): 661-664  

Peter Cryle, Elizabeth Stephens: Normality: A Critical Genealogy

Filip Herza

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(5): 665-667  

Sebastian Schlund: >>Behinderung

Maria-Lena Fassig

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(5): 668-670  

Claire L. Shaw: Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991

Pavel Šinkovec

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(5): 671-673  

Lukáš Linek, Ondřej Císař, Ivan Petrúšek, Kateřina Vráblíková: Občanství a politická participace v České republice

Dušan Pavlů

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(5): 674-676  

Zygmunt Bauman: 44 Letters from the Liquid Modern World

Viera Jakubovská

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(5): 677-682  

Konference Mezinárodního institutu pro etnometodologii a konverzační analýzu

Jakub Mlynář

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(5): 683