Urban or Family-Friendly? The Presentation of Czech Shopping
Centers as Family-Friendly Spaces

J 2017

Urban or Family-Friendly? The Presentation of Czech Shopping Centers as Family-Friendly Spaces

POSPĚCH, Pavel

Basic information

Original name

Urban or Family-Friendly? The Presentation of Czech Shopping Centers as Family-Friendly Spaces

Authors

POSPĚCH, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Space and Culture, Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publications, 2017, 1206-3312

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50401 Sociology

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.730

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/17:00094596

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331216646059

UT WoS

000391796400005

Keywords in English

shopping centers; public space; family; social control; exclusion; Czech Republic

Abstract

V originále

This article presents a study of the self-presentation of shopping centers in the Czech Republic as “family-friendly” spaces. The notion of family-friendliness is analyzed both as a structural category, referring to the structure of the stereotypical normal family and to its respective members, and as a cultural representation, referring to “family values,” which Czech malls invoke in their self-presentation. It is argued that the presentation of a “space for the whole family” covers only the persistent stereotype of female-led economic consumption. The family values of safety and comfort distinguish shopping centers negatively from the city centers. They also strongly refer to the country’s past by invoking the image of a family promenade. On a more general level, the family appeal thrives on the phenomenon of postsocialist privatism and on the turning away from the public sphere in favor of the private realm of the family.

Links

GP14-32200P, research and development project

Name: Nepatřičnost v městském veřejném prostoru

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

POSPĚCH, Pavel. Urban or Family-Friendly? The Presentation of Czech Shopping Centers as Family-Friendly Spaces. Space and Culture. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2017, vol. 20, No 1, p. 68-80. ISSN 1206-3312. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331216646059.

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POSPĚCH, Pavel. Urban or Family-Friendly? The Presentation of Czech Shopping Centers as Family-Friendly Spaces. \textit{Space and Culture}. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2017, vol.~20, No~1, p.~68-80. ISSN~1206-3312. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331216646059.

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