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Homelessness Homelessness is regarded as an extreme form of poverty and social exclusion and thus also as a serious social matter. It has recently become the public policy issue as well as a concern of the wider public and the academy. The activities of homeless people significantly shape urban environment. Still, study of the time-space practices of the homeless people in Czechia is systematically neglected. So far there have dominated the studies of the spatial distibution of the phenomenon at the national level or at the level of particular cities. What is the role of space in the lives of the homeless population? What factors undermine the production of their living spaces and how are these spaces being formed in the everyday practice? These questions still await our reply. The project is thus concerned with the study of the everyday time-space practices of homeless in the urban environment of Prague with the emphasis on the present. The project aim is the analysis of time-space practices of homeless and its undermining factors. Homeless is for the need of the present project defined as a person, whose time-space practices are situated mostly in outer environment of city (i.e. streets, parks, places etc.) and who lacks a lasting accomodation. The emphasis is being placed on the identification of the causes of the daily mobility patterns. In the first year of the project the theoretical and methodological framework is worked up. In the second year the fieldwork is conducted. The analysis of the undermining factors of the daily mobility takes place in the second and the third year of the project.
October 19, 2013
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Law matters, but where? It´s often taken for granted, that law is binding everywhere. By this I mean that people usually think of a law as universaly binding to any given place in a given jurisdiction. In regard to this general claim, I would like to point out, that this might be true in some cases, but what is substantial, is the context. In other words, the question is "Where a law binds?". Let me begin with a city. If you live in a city or are interested in it, as it should be almost sure these days, then you might try to pay a slight piece of attention, when it comes f. e. to the sorrounding of the place where you live. Are there any places where you are not supposed to walk? Can you do everything in your beloved park? Because I live in Prague and have a dog, I find a lot of restrictions on free movement of dogs in many places. Some of them are legal norms, some of them "only" social norms. Therefore, I usually ask myself, who sets these norms? Why are they there? Who benefit from them? Can I change them? These are questions, which spring to my mind very often. I haven´t been able to answer them clearly. The only thing I know is, that somewhere we can move freely and somewhere not.
May 28, 2013
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