Drawing on the results of a qualitative study conducted in twelve Czech cities, the authors discuss how 'problematic localities' are represented in the narratives of local politicians and public offi cials. They analyse the ways in which these localities are categorised and how these categorisations are used to legitimise the specifi c treatment of these places and their inhabitants. City governance and administration are considered to be a part of a modern tradition of urban planning and city management, which is analysed in the fi rst part of the study. The second, empirical part shows how 'common sense', ethnicised attributes are activated and applied to the localities and their inhabitants in the narratives of politicians and public offi cials. These attributes are associated with a notion of impurity, which leads to the need for surveillance, discipline, or purifi cation. From their analysis of these narrative practices the authors suggest that the borders of entitlement and the borders of responsibility are constructed. The borders of entitlement defi ne who deserves the care provided by a state or a city; the borders of responsibility then delimit the symbolic space in which the state or city is perceived by its representatives to be responsible for the situation of its inhabitants and citizens. A crucial role is played in the process of border formation by (1) the application of ethnicised categories and inconsistent defi nitions of the objects of municipal and state care and by (2) the forms of ownership that apply to the housing stock in which these objects, that is, people, live.
The study of different forms of belonging and place attachment within more or less locally bound communities has a long tradition in sociology. This paper presents findings from qualitative research on solo-living people and aims to understand the role of urbanity in their everyday life, practices, and narratives. Home is conceived, for the purposes of this study, as an ethnographic context, and also as a multiscalar concept of practices that structure our everydayness. Following the critical geography of home formulated by Blunt and Dowling, we understand the city as one of the major scales on which home can be experienced, articulated and lived. We identify three forms of the home attachment of sololiving people: home as a choice, home as a project, and home as an experience. Furthermore, we show the ambivalent role played by urban experiences that simultaneously involve enjoyment and pleasures but also the negative experiences of solo-living or single partnership status.
Tento článek se soustředí na porovnání výpovědí legislativních expertů s teoretickými přístupy k tvorbě práva. Cílem je zmapovat jejich pojetí činnosti, kterou provádějí, a která má vést ke vzniku právního předpisu. Cílem článku dále je předložit základní možné přístupy ke studiu procesů spjatých s tvorbou práva, zejména s fází, která probíhá na vládní úrovni, tj. v rámci byrokratického aparátu, kterým vláda, jako typický předkladatel návrhů právních předpisů, disponuje. Článek proto kombinuje empirické postupy (kvalitativní šetření s cílem vytvořit metodologii pro další empirická zjišťování) s doktrinálním přístupem zaměřeným na analýzu dostupných literárních poznatků, tedy s poznatky plynoucími z odborné literatury.
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