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Ageing, housing and home : personal experiences of older Czech residents in the post-socialist era and beyond.

GALČANOVÁ, Lucie a Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Ageing, housing and home : personal experiences of older Czech residents in the post-socialist era and beyond.

Autoři

GALČANOVÁ, Lucie (203 Česká republika, domácí) a Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ (203 Česká republika, domácí)

Vydání

British Society of Gerontology 47th Annual Conference : Ageing in an Unequal World: Shaping Environments for the 21st Century, 2018

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50401 Sociology

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/18:00101361

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

urban ageing; rural ageing; domesticity; public space; social exclusion; qualitative research

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam
Změněno: 19. 11. 2018 21:05, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

Many authors point to the importance of housing as a base for social inclusion and satisfaction in other areas of life. Multi-dimensional frameworks that consider social exclusion in later life consequently identify home and community as being of central importance to inclusion in old age. In the Czech Republic, the period after the fall of state socialism was characterised by struggles over the meaning of housing and home with contradictory outcomes. On the one hand, the neo-liberal rhetoric led to the general perception of housing as a “commodity like any other”. On the other, the processes of housing stock privatisation, rent deregulation and restitution led to the relatively homogenising, but also regionally uneven trajectories of housing distribution, affordability and security. Thus, this paper has two aims. Firstly, we present a short overview of the development of the housing market and policies in the Czech Republic after the fall of state socialism with a special focus on its changing impact on the older population. Secondly, we illustrate the variability of effects of this development from the perspective of older residents. We do this by drawing on two waves of qualitative interviews (from two interconnected projects researching quality of life and housing experiences in selected urban and rural areas). These “housing stories” told by older home-owners and tenants reflect both the material struggles and symbolic meanings connected with home, belonging and place. The paper concludes by arguing for a stronger focus on housing and home in research on old-age social exclusion.

Návaznosti

GA16-20873S, projekt VaV
Název: Stárnutí na venkově: nezodpovězené otázky environmentální gerontologie (Akronym: RA)
Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Stárnutí na venkově: nezodpovězené otázky environmentální gerontologie