Institute of Sociology, the Czech Academy of Sciences
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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
- Lokšová, Terezie, T. Hoření Samec. 2023. Monotématické číslo - editorial: „Za krizí bydlení: koncepty, kontexty, konverzace a kritika.“ Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review 59 (2): 123-147.
- Hoření Samec, T., L. Trlifajová 2023. Protect or punish debtors? Policymaker discourse on the state's role in personal debt governance. New Political Economy 28 (6): 958-970.
- Malý Blažek, J., T. Hoření Samec, P. Kubala, V. Orcígr 2023. Participativní bydlení: nová konceptualizace demokratických forem bydlení v České republice. Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review 59 (2): 173-195. https://doi.og/10.13060/csr.2023.029
- Kodenko Kubala, P., J. Malý Blažek, V. Orcígr, T. Hoření Samec, M. Káňová, D. Tichý, J. Kubcová 2023. Traces of Obduracy: Imaginaries of ‘Social Inertia’ in the Process of Introducing Collaborative Housing in the Czech Republic. Critical Housing Analysis 10 (1): 39-49.
- Hoření Samec, T., P. Kubala 2022. Dual responsibilization for housing in a housing crisis: young adults in the Czech Republic. Housing Studies 39 (4): 857-876. 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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