Publication details
„Za čistší město“: Problémové lokality a jejich obyvatelé z pohledu místní politiky a správy.
| Title in English | „Towards the purer city“: The problem localities and its inhabitants in the perspective of local authorities. |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/cs/issue/119-sociologicky-casopis-czech-sociological-review-4-2011/2148 |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | social exclusion; space; urbanism; purification; ethnicisation; local government and administration; qualitative research; Czech Republic |
| Description | Drawing on results of a qualitative study conducted in twelve Czech cities, we discuss how the so called “problematic localities” are represented within the narratives of local politicians and administrative workers. The empirical part of our text presents how the essentialist “common sense“ ethnicised attributes are activated and applied to the localities and their inhabitants in the narratives of politicians and administrative workers. These attributes are associated with the image of impurity that leads to the need of surveillance, disciplination or purification. In analysing these narrative practices, we suggest that the borders of entitlement and the borders of responsibility are constructed. The borders of entitlement define who deserves the care provided by a state or a city; the borders of responsibility then delimit a symbolic space, in which a state or a city is perceived, by their representatives, as being responsible for the situation of their inhabitants and citizens. |
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