Mgr. Tomáš Samec, Ph.D.

Institute of Sociology, the Czech Academy of Sciences

Jilská 1

110 00 Praha 1

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Samec T., M. Lux, P. Sunega, L. Kážmér, I. Boumová 2015. „Kdo rozhoduje na trhu bydlení? Vliv sociálních vazeb na reprodukci preference vlastnického bydlení.“ Pp. 44-60 in Lux M. (ed.) 2015. Standardy bydlení 2014/2015: Sociální normy a rozhodování na trhu bydlení. Praha: Sociologický Ústav AV ČR.

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.

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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