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fsamecMgr. Tomáš Samec, Ph.D.

Institute of Sociology, the Czech Academy of Sciences

Jilská 1

110 00  Praha 1

Telefon: +420 210 310 214

Email: tomas.samec@soc.cas.cz

Research topics

  • discourse analysis in the housing context and qualitative research methods;
  • housing financialisation;
  • new forms of housing provision: new co-operative housing and new municipal housing.

Education

  • 2018 - Ph.D., doctoral program in Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.
  • 2017 - research fellowship, University of Vienna, supported by Aktion (Austrian OeAD-GmbH/ICM)
  • 2014 - Mgr., Master program in Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.
  • 2011 - Bc., Bachelor program in Sociology and Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.

Awards

  • 2nd runner-up in Bengt Turner Award competition for the best conference papers at European Network for Housing Research 2016 Conference in Belfast, submitted paper: Performance of Social Inequalities in the Housing Market: Meanings of Mortgages and Intergenerational Financial Transfers.
  • Josef Hlávka Award for the best students and graduates from Universities in Prague, Brno and for the young scholars in Czech Academy of Sciences in 2015.
  • Edvard Beneš Award of the 3th degree in the field of sociology in 2014. Awarded master’s thesis: Crisis and the construction of home: Narrative accounts of the Financial crisis on the Czech housing market.

Publications

Books

  • Hájek, M., P. Kaderka, J. Nekvapil, T. Samec 2019. Kdo šetří, má za tři? Diskurz šetrnosti v proměnách české společnosti. Praha: SLON. 312 p. ISBN: 978-80-7419-260-9.

Book chapters

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  • Samec, T. 2019. Normalization of Mortgages in Media Discourse through Affects and Instructions. Housing, Theory and Society. Online first publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2019.1584584.
  • Samec, T. 2018. Performing Housing Debt Attachments: Forming Semi-Financialized Subjects. Journal of Cultural Economy 11 (6): 549-564. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2018.1493611.
  • Samec, T., P. Gibas 2018. Urban Political Ecology of Worth and Value: Enacting Allotments in Media Discourse. Space and Culture. Online first publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331218806169.
  • Lux, M., T. Samec, V. Bartos, P. Sunega, J. Palguta, I. Boumová, L. Kážmér 2018. Who actually decides? Parental influence on the housing tenure choice of their children. Urban Studies 55 (2): 406-426. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016646665
  • Samec, T. 2018. Introduction to the Special Issue: Housing Financialisation and Families (editorial). Critical Housing Analysis 5 (2): 1-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/23362839.2018.5.2.437
  • Hájek, M., T. Samec 2017. Discourses of thrift and saving in a state-socialist society and their legacy for responsible present-day consumption. Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 53(6): 805 - 831. https://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2017.53.6.376.
  • Hájek, Martin, Dlouhá, Marie, Samec, Tomáš. 2014. ‘Watch out for politics’: exit, voice and other strategies of discontent in late Czech socialism. Journal of Political Power 7 (3): 393-411.

Projects

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 Membership in societies and boards

  • 2019 - till now. Member of the comimttee. Fund for affordable housing of the capital Prague.
  • 2016 - till now. Coordinator of the working group Housing and Family Dynamics of the European Network for Housing Research.

 

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