Mgr. Tomáš Samec, Ph.D.

Institute of Sociology, the Czech Academy of Sciences

Jilská 1

110 00 Praha 1

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Research topics

discourse analysis in the housing context and qualitative research methods;
housing financialisation;
new forms of housing provision: new co-operative housing and new municipal housing.

Education

2018 - Ph.D. in Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.
2017 - research fellowship, University of Vienna, supported by Aktion (Austrian OeAD-GmbH/ICM)
2014 - Mgr., Master program in Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.
2011 - Bc., Bachelor program in Sociology and Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.

Awards

2nd runner-up in Bengt Turner Award competition for the best conference papers at European Network for Housing Research 2016 Conference in Belfast, submitted paper: Performance of Social Inequalities in the Housing Market: Meanings of Mortgages and Intergenerational Financial Transfers.
Josef Hlávka Award for the best students and graduates from Universities in Prague, Brno and for the young scholars in Czech Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Edvard Beneš Award of the 3th degree in the field of sociology in 2014. Awarded master’s thesis: Crisis and the construction of home: Narrative accounts of the Financial crisis on the Czech housing market.

Publications

Books

Gibas, P., H. Ďaňková, T. Hodúlová, K. Pauknerová, K. Šima, J. Woitsch, V. Aresta, B. Nyklová, T. Hoření Samec, P. Vašát 2019. Kutilství: Drobná mozaika svépomocné tvorby. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., 127 s.
Hájek, M., Kaderka, P., Nekvapil, J., and Samec T. 2019. Kdo šetří, má za tři? Diskurz šetrnosti v proměnách české společnosti. Praha: SLON. 312 p. ISBN: 978-80-7419-260-9.

Book chapters

Hoření Samec, T., P. Kubala. "Kdo je zodpovědný za zajištění bydlení, když je nedostupné? Perspektiva mladých dospělých z českých metropolí." Pp. 78-91 in Gibas, P. (ed.). Bydlení mladých v době krize. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. ISBN 978-80-7330-390-7.
Kubala, P., T. Hoření Samec 2022. "Rytmy životů mladých dospělých v časech krize dostupnosti bydlení." Pp. 14-27 in Gibas, P. (ed.). Bydlení mladých v době krize. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. ISBN 978-80-7330-390-7.
Hoření Samec, T. 2021. “For the sake of consumer protection”: blending paternalism and neoliberalism in the discursive financialization of households in the Czech Republic. Pp. 147 – 169 in Mikuš M. & Rodik P. (eds). Households and Financialization in Europe: Mapping Variegated Patterns in Semi-Peripheries. Abingdon: Routledge.
Černá, E., Hoření Samec, T., Černý, J. 2020. „Financializace bydlení. Když se z domova stává investice.“ Pp 93 - 110 in P. Barša, M. Dokupil Škabraha (eds.). Za hranice kapitalismu. Praha: Rybka Publishers.
Samec T., M. Lux, P. Sunega, L. Kážmér, I. Boumová 2015. „Kdo rozhoduje na trhu bydlení? Vliv sociálních vazeb na reprodukci preference vlastnického bydlení.“ Pp. 44-60 in Lux M. (ed.) 2015. Standardy bydlení 2014/2015: Sociální normy a rozhodování na trhu bydlení. Praha: Sociologický Ústav AV ČR.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Hoření Samec, T., P. Kubala 2022. Dual responsibilization for housing in a housing crisis: young adults in the Czech Republic. Housing Studies. Online first publication. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2091115.
Samec, T., P. Gibas 2021. Urban Political Ecology of Worth and Value: Enacting Allotments in Media Discourse. Space and Culture 24 (1): 170-183.
Kubala, P., T. Hoření Samec 2021. The Pace of 'The Good Life': Connecting Past, Present and Future in the Context of a Housing Affordability Crisis. Time and Society 30 (2): 198–222.
Hoření Samec, T., I. Balgová, B. Vacková 2020. Svépomocné bydlení v době pozdního státního socialismu: responsibilizace, ideologie a beton. Studia Ethnologica Pragensia 11 (1): 58-77.
Samec, T. 2019. Normalization of Mortgages in Media Discourse through Affects and Instructions. Housing, Theory and Society. Online first publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2019.1584584.
Samec, T. 2018. Performing Housing Debt Attachments: Forming Semi-Financialized Subjects. Journal of Cultural Economy 11 (6): 549-564. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2018.1493611.
Samec, T., P. Gibas 2018. Urban Political Ecology of Worth and Value: Enacting Allotments in Media Discourse. Space and Culture. Online first publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331218806169.
Lux, M., T. Samec, V. Bartos, P. Sunega, J. Palguta, I. Boumová, L. Kážmér 2018. Who actually decides? Parental influence on the housing tenure choice of their children. Urban Studies 55 (2): 406-426. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016646665
Samec, T. 2018. Introduction to the Special Issue: Housing Financialisation and Families (editorial). Critical Housing Analysis 5 (2): 1-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/23362839.2018.5.2.437
Hájek, M., T. Samec 2017. Discourses of thrift and saving in a state-socialist society and their legacy for responsible present-day consumption. Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 53(6): 805 - 831. https://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2017.53.6.376.
Hájek, Martin, Dlouhá, Marie, Samec, Tomáš. 2014. ‘Watch out for politics’: exit, voice and other strategies of discontent in late Czech socialism. Journal of Political Power 7 (3): 393-411.

Projects

Project leader

2020 - 2024. Politická ekonomie/ekologie měst. Akademie věd ČR. Součást výzkumného programu 23. Město jako laboratoř změny; stavby, kulturní dědictví a prostředí pro bezpečný a hodnotný život.
2020 - 2022. Constructing and Performing Citizenship through Debt in the Czech Republic. Czech Science Foundation, reg. number 20-04863S.

Project participant

2019 - 2021. Housing Paths of Millennials: Increasing Tension between Homeownership Normalization and Urban Affordability Crisis in the Czech Republic. Czech Science Foundation, reg. number 19-07402S.
2018 - 2020. Do-It-Yourself culture and its importance for Czech national and cultural identity: Current situtation in social, cultural, historical and political perspective, typology and potential for regional development. NAKI II (reg. number DG18P02OVV022).
2015 - 2018. Between home and nature: urban political ecology of allotment gardening in post-socialist city and its urban impacts. Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR) 16-06077S.
2016 - 2018. Housing Based Welfare: Risks and Implications of Release of Housing Wealth to Support Retirement Income. Czech Science Foundation, reg. number 16-06335S.
2012 – 2015. Využití sociologických metod pro analýzu nerovnováhy na trhu bydlení. Kritická a kontextuální metodologie ve výzkumu bydlení. [The Application of Sociological Methods to Detect Housing Market Disequilibrium. Critical & Context-Sensitive Housing Research Methodology] Czech Science Foundation, reg. number P404/12/1446.

Membership in societies and boards

2019 - till now. Member of the comimttee. Fund for affordable housing of the capital Prague.
2016 - till now. Coordinator of the working group Housing and Family Dynamics of the European Network for Housing Research.

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