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Konference "Field Research in Anthropology: Unity and Diversity", Olomouc, 3.-4. 10. 2017

Sociologicky Casopis-czech Sociological Review, Feb 1, 2018

Shared enemies, shared friends

In an attempt to discuss punk subculture, it is impossible to treat it as an isolated phenomenon.... more In an attempt to discuss punk subculture, it is impossible to treat it as an isolated phenomenon. Punk subculture in Czechoslovakia began to form before 1989 in a society substantially isolated from the milieu where punk was born. Punk was imported to a society significantly determined by a political system which called itself socialistic, claimed allegiance to the idea of communism and whose primary characteristics, regardless of the name or ideas, were above all isolation, repression, fear and conformity as the only way of "decent" living. In the same totalitarian regime, right in the middle of a slowly establishing punk subculture emerged skinhead subculture.

Kontexty Konstrukce Minulosti Na Příkladu Interpretací Holocaustu V Českých Zemích

Český lid, 2019

Despite drawing on a large body of different paradigms, subcultural studies have been conceptuali... more Despite drawing on a large body of different paradigms, subcultural studies have been conceptualizing subcultures rather uniformly as a world in itself, a reaction to dominant society or a combination of both. In our paper, we argue for more encompassing theoretical view, we call the relational perspective. Inspired by symbolic interactionism and studies on identity and alterity, while building on concepts devised in post-subcultural studies, we claim that particular subcultures are delineated in respect to many different actors. These can be roughly classified into categories of mainstream, other subcultures and enactments of one's own subculture. Grounded in empirical research of punk and emo subcultures and employing the concepts of in/authenticity (based on subcultural capital formed by subcultural style, ideology and practice), we will show the possibility of application of this perspective in studying contemporary subcultural formations both diachronically and synchronically.

Kdo nezkoumá se mnou, zkoumá proti nám? Povaha a dynamika týmového etnografického výzkumu

Folklor Atomového Věku Kolektivně Sdílené Prvky Expresivní Kultury V Soudobé České Společnosti

&amp;quot;Folklore genres and similar forms of informally transmitted, social-based and c... more &amp;quot;Folklore genres and similar forms of informally transmitted, social-based and created expressive culture in contemporary Czech society can be found in two main enviroments: in ad-hoc created informal chat groups and more stable, traditional social groups. The first type of groups represents the main setting for transmission of intersubjective and global traditions such as anecdotes or contemporary legends; the groups of second type can be characterized by sharing more esoteric and complex traditions, including many artifacts of material culture. Four examples of such groups with collective tradition found in contemporary society of the Czech Republic – children, soldiers in compulsory military service, Czech tramps and musical subcultures – which can be alternativelly labelled as subcultures, folk groups or bearers of contemporary folk traditions – are presented and examined in the book.&amp;quot;

Urban People / Lidé města, 2017

The Village of the Year in the Czech Republic is a national competition held since 1995, announce... more The Village of the Year in the Czech Republic is a national competition held since 1995, announced annually by the Ministry of Regional Development. Its aim is to promote the " restoration " and " development " of the Czech countryside through communal projects carried out by villagers themselves. Each year hundreds of Czech and Moravian villages enter the competition. Being focused on the countryside, the notion of rurality is one of the com-petition's defining features. But what kind of rurality is it? What are its constituents? How it is performed in the village competition projects? And what are the sources of the forms it takes? Our analysis of media representations by village competitors (web sites, video presentations, etc.), alongside materials provided for competitors by the Ministry and other participating organizations (competition rules, official documents, etc.) and various media representations of the competition (television reports, etc.), reveals how the discourses involved operate and how they create a certain " ideal " village that is to be seen as a model to be followed. We argue that the several discourses of rurality interwoven in the representations of villages within the competition (those of experts/academics, public/media, villagers, and policymakers) form an interdiscourse of " pop-rurality " , which is a rurality deterritorialized, enriched with shared global (pop-cultural) elements, and re-territorialized again, to then float freely in public (especially virtual) space.

Fight back: punk, politics and resistance., 2015

Novotná, Hedvika -Heřmanský, Martin (2015): Shared enemies, shared friends: the relational charac... more Novotná, Hedvika -Heřmanský, Martin (2015): Shared enemies, shared friends: the relational character of subcultural ideology in the case of Czech punks and skinheads. In: Fight back: punk, politics and resistance. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 170-185. ISBN: 0-7190-9029-6.

Folklor atomového věku, 2011

One of the most important characteristics of contemporary society is its internal diversity. This... more One of the most important characteristics of contemporary society is its internal diversity. This diversity manifests itself among other ways by the existence of many subcultures. These are social groups characterised by specific set of norms, values, behavioural patterns and lifestyles that to some extent differ
from dominant culture (if it is possible to talk about eliminated culture(s) in the contemporary world), but which are also its constituents. Subcultures can be established on various bases (e.g. ethnical, socio-professional, interests, etc.). One of these principles is often shared music because musical discourse is a place where identities can be created.
Musical subcultures became a significant phenomenon in Western (EuroAmerican) society in the second half of the 20th century and were there also intensively studied and described. Even though Czech society went through a different development in the second half of 20th century than most Western ones, it is still possible to trace beginning of subcultures in the former Czechoslovakia from the 1950s and with a high degree certainty in the 1970s.
The aim of our text is to show how the social sciences perceive the phenomenon of musical subcultures and their changes. We distinguish between subcultural ideology (values, norms and attitudes) and subcultural style (visage, demeanor and slang). We will also focus marginally on the context of subcultures in the Czech Republic and the former Czechoslovakia. We attempt
to show to what extent contemporary subcultures are influenced by globalization processes and to what extent it is possible to see its elements in local diversification. We would also like to trace the contemporary trend of the blurring of the distinct borders among particular subcultures and mixing of subcultural styles.

Biograf - Časopis pro kvalitativní výzkum, 2010