Ethnographies of urban change: introducing homelessness and the post-socialist city

0552735 - SOÚ 2023 GB eng J - Journal Article
Ferenčuhová, Slavomíra - Vašát, Petr
Ethnographies of urban change: introducing homelessness and the post-socialist city.
Urban Geography. Roč. 42, č. 9 (2021), s. 1217-1229. ISSN 0272-3638. E-ISSN 1938-2847
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) LQ300282103
Program: Prémie Lumina quaeruntur
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : homelessness * post-socialist city * urban change * ethnography * informality
OECD category: Urban studies (planning and development)
Impact factor: 3.563, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2021.1930696

Since urban homelessness first appeared in modern cities, it has served as an indicator of the current socio-spatial order and of its change. Here, we turn our attention to cities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in an attempt to discuss homelessness and social change through these cities’ specific historicity and their story of transition from state-socialism to a, mostly, neoliberalized global economy. We argue that this endeavor opens inspiration and new perspectives on: (1) the post-socialist (urban) transformation, (2) urban homelessness as a socio-material experience, (3) the political aspects of informal practices. Relying on research in various spatial and temporal contexts, authors in the special issue inquire into an alternative politics of living in current (post-socialist) cities. They shed light on how homelessness and the lives of people who struggle with housing precarity codefine change, and how they become active agents of urban transformation.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0327849