Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6)

Editorial

Editorial: Urban Dynamics and Neighbourhood Change in Cities after Transition

Martin Ouředníček, Lucie Pospíšilová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 787-794

Articles

Socio-ethnic Segregation in the Metropolitan Areas of Lithuania

Donatas Burneika, Rūta Ubarevičienė

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 795-820 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.6.287

One of the specific features of many post-Soviet cities is their multiethnic structure, which was strongly influenced by internal migrations within the Soviet Union. Political and economic reforms in the 1990s led to changes in ethnic composition, and the attention given to the processes of ethnic-segregation has started to increase. While most studies focus on capital cities, much less is known about second-tier cities. This article examines the interrelationships between ethnic and social segregation in the metropolitan areas of Lithuania (Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda). The authors use Lithuanian census data from the years 2001 and 2011 to obtain...

The Long-term Development of Socio-spatial Differentiation in Socialist and Post-socialist Prague

Petra Špačková, Lucie Pospíšilová, Martin Ouředníček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 821-860 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.6.288

The article examines how different social and urban processes were reflected in the spatial patterns of three dimensions of population structure (demographic, socio-economic, and ethnic statuses) in Prague during the socialist and post-socialist periods. The article has three main objectives. First, it analyses inertia and change in socio-spatial patterns and evaluates the processes that have influenced them. Second, it investigates how the importance of all three statuses in the spatial differentiation of urban space has evolved. Third, the article focuses on the level of geographical variability as recorded within different spatial scales, and the...

The Social Transformation of Large Housing Estates in Poland at the Turn of the 21st Century

Katarzyna Gorczyca

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 861-892 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.6.289

Large housing estates make up an essential portion of the housing stock in the urban structure of Polish cities. It was expected that large housing estates in Poland might experience social decline in the 1990s, but several research projects conducted in the estates did not identify any increase in social degradation. This article examines the social structure of the residents of large housing estates in Poland and identifies the main trends in current social changes. The time frame of ongoing transformations in the social structure was set around the turn of the 21st century. This analysis is based on Polish 1988 and 2002 National Census data, the...

Behind the Differentiation of Suburban Development in the Hinterland of Bratislava, Slovakia

Martin Šveda, Michala Madajová, Peter Podolák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 893-926 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.6.290

Several tendencies seem to indicate that in the hinterland of Bratislava specific new residential zones are forming with a different socio-economic structure. This article analyses the hinterland of Bratislava from various perspectives of suburban development. The selection of variables covers the origin of in-migrants and their economic activity, education, and family status. Indicators of land use, housing construction, and property prices supplement these data. The data are processed based on a factorial ecology approach, which tries to discover the basic dimensions of the socio-spatial structure, and cluster analysis. Using these methods the authors...

Urban Place as a Heterochronotopia: A Case Study of a Brno Locality

Robert Osman, Daniel Seidenglanz, Ondřej Mulíček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 927-962 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.6.291

This article is based on long-term study of the relationship between time and space. It does not conceive space as a dimensionless, empty, and homogeneous container but draws instead on the concept of place as unique and meaningful. The conceptualisation of place is thus based on the classic works of the humanist geographers Yi-Fu Tuan and Edward Relph, who consider place to be integral, enclosed, and determinable. The issue of the determinability of integral and still meaningful place is examined using Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia. A certain place in a city is linked to a number of other places, which in a way then become present in that...

The Impacts of Culture-led Flagship Projects on Local Communities in the Context of Post-socialist Tallinn

Ingmar Pastak, Anneli Kährik

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 963-990 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.6.292

In post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe, the effects of urban culture-led flagship projects on the quality of life of local neighbourhood communities have only received marginal attention, while the overriding focus has been on promoting economic growth and internationalisation. The aim of the article is to identify the community impacts of culture-led regeneration projects carried out in the inner city of Tallinn in the past decade. Qualitative analysis of three inner-city flagship projects-creative campus, museum, and cultural hub-revealed that culture-led regeneration projects, whether public or private initiatives, are regarded as standard...

Book reviews

Pauli Kettunen, Sonya Michel and Klaus Petersen (eds): Race, Ethnicity, and Welfare States: An American Dilemma?

Rebecca Hamlin

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 997-999

Max Haller and Anja Eder: Ethnic Stratification and Economic Inequality around the World: The End of Exploitation and Exclusion?

Ryan Finnigan

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 1000-1001

Seán Ó Riain: The Rise and Fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger. Liberalism, Boom and Bust

Vera Šćepanović

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 1002-1004

Joel Sawat Selway: Coalitions of the Well-being: How Electoral Rules and Ethnic Politics Shape Health Policy in Developing Countries

Alexandru Daniel Moise

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 1005-1008

Allan Kellehear: The Inner Life of the Dying Person

Carrie H. Ryan

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 1009-1010

Swen Hutter: Protesting Culture and Economics in Western Europe: New Cleavages in Left and Right Politics

Katrin Uba

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 1011-1013

Maurits Berger (ed.): Applying Sharia in the West. Facts, Fears and the Future of Islamic Rules on Family Relations in the West

Tomáš Ledvinka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 1014-1016

Constance DeVereaux and Martin Griffin: Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World

Joanna Rak

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(6): 1017-1020