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Introduction
Alena Rochovska currently works at the Department of Economic and Social Geography, Demography and Territorial Development, Comenius University in Bratislava. Alena does research in Social Geography, Urban/Rural Sociology and Social Stratification. Her current project is 'Intergenerational social networks in an aging city, continuity and innovation'.
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January 2007 - present
January 2007 - October 2015
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Komunitné centrum, nízkoprahové denné centrum a nízkoprahová sociálna služba pre deti a rodiny predstavujú nástroje sociálnych služieb, ktoré sú zamerané na komunity a skupiny obyvateľov ohrozené chudobou a sociálnym vylúčením. Uvedené sociálne služby poskytli v roku 2021 služby pre 59 tisíc prijímateľov a vynaložili takmer 9 mil. eur. Finančné pro...
Transport infrastructure development is considered one of the basic structural preconditions of competitiveness, growth and economic development in Slovakia. Transport network upgrading in the country has recently been focused mainly on road and motorway networks. The goal of this paper is to contribute to existing approaches to transport infrastru...
Access to fresh water and sanity represent elementary human rights leading to a healthy life and high life quality. Among other features of social exclusion, poor access to basic infrastructure such as drinking water pipelines and public sewage systems may adversely affect human health and cause high risk of epidemics related to poor hygienic condi...
This paper examines the issue of poverty and social exclusion of Roma in Slovakia. It highlights the problem of poverty among Roma communities, which together with segregation leads to absolute poverty and social exclusion. Based on ethnographic research the paper examines conditions in which inhabitants of segregated Roma communities sustain their...
Investing into water infrastructure and water and sewerage construction is not just a matter of meeting the technical standards required by law. In the wider context of local development, it is a local policy of improving the quality of life, creating attractiveness and competitiveness, and last but not least, it is the issue of safe access to drin...
W słowackim systemie edukacji segregacja jest dość powszechnym zjawiskiem zarówno w szkołach podstawowych, jak i w przedszkolach. Mimo powtarzających się ostrzeżeń ze strony Unii Europejskiej, szkoły w pobliżu społeczności romskich wykorzystują taką separację. Dyrekcje twierdzą, że edukacja ta wspiera „indywidualne podejście” do uczniów romskich, p...
Friendly neighbourhood, the importance of the environment for a healthy seniors' community Abstract: The aim of the paper is to analyse the relationship between the physical environment of the Bratislava-Dúbravka neighbourhood and the seniors. We attempt to identify the aging process and demographic characteristics of aging (with a specific aim at...
The aim of the paper is to analyse the relationship between the physical environment of the Bratislava-Dúbravka neighbourhood and the seniors. We attempt to identify the aging process and demographic characteristics of aging (with a specific aim at the seniors living in the households of singles, and to verify the existence and evaluate the space -...
The article focuses on the influence of social exclusion, particularly in the spatial context in the form of segregation, on the everyday life of marginalized Roma communities. The article brings results of two interlinked studies in which the authors participated. The objective of the first study was to find the life strategies of Roma households...
Social exclusion, segregation and livelihood strategies of the Roma communities
in terms of asset theory.
The article focuses on the influence of social exclusion, particularly in the spatial
context in the form of segregation, on the everyday life of marginalized Roma communities.
The article brings results of two interlinked studies in which the...
Our contribution offers an insight into current results of successive qualitative studies. The first study conducted in 2012 is focusing on life strategies of Roma people in Slovakia, with educational strategies included. The next study conducted in 2014 is dedicated to Roma people's perception of personal crisis and strain situations. The results...
Education is among the main declared objectives of cooperation cohesion politics concerning marginalised Roman communities. Support of education has been done through series of targeted financial interventions supported by structural and cohesion funds. The Trebišov region district, according to the results of The Atlas of Roma communities, belongs...
The main objective of the paper is to show the disadvantages resulting from segregation and their implications and impact on lives of people in segregated Roma communities. The paper is in-spired by the results of several qualitative research studies focused on livelihood strategies investiga-tion that have been implemented in different types of Ro...
This paper presents the ways by which households and individuals construct everyday livelihoods and negotiate forms of poverty in the rural areas in Slovakia. Based on the recent research the agricultural strategies adopted by households and individuals were examined. We attempt to embrace the ways how they link informal and formal economic activit...
The process of gentrification is one of those, in which different social contexts takes place in all major cities including post-socialist cities with their distinctive history and structure. Increasing social inequalities in transitive societies reflect in the changing spatial structure of cities. One of the processes that may significantly change...
The process of gentrification is one of those, in which different social contexts takes place in all major cities including post-socialist cities with their distinctive history and structure. Increasing social inequalities in transitive societies reflect in the changing spatial structure of cities. One of the processes that may significantly change...
This paper discusses the issue of a new form of residential housing in post-socialist cities, so-called gated communities. The aim of the paper is to provide a theoretical introduction to the subject and to present specific examples of gated communities based on the authors' own observations in the Slovak capital. Research into the subject has been...
Homelessness is a socio-pathological phenomenon which has upward trend in Slovakia. This phenomenon is associated with a number of questions on the level of function-ing society as a whole. Prominently are the differences between the life strategies of people living in ordinary households and people living on the streets, who are struggling to surv...
Domesticating Neo-LiberalismPost-SocialismEveryday Life in Post-Socialist Poland and SlovakiaTransforming Post-Socialist Cities and Neighbourhoods: Kraków and BratislavaA Note on Method
Plan of the Book
Domesticating Neo-LiberalismDiverse Economies of Post-SocialismNeo-Liberal Subjectivities and their OthersThe Violence of Neo-Liberalism: Class, Gender, Generation and EthnicityComparative Neo-LiberalismsConclusions
Introduction: The Meanings of Land and FoodLand and the Domestic Production of FoodLand and Land DevelopmentSocial Networks and the Circulation of FoodThe Transformation of Retail Landscapes and Food Consumption PracticesManaging Retail ExclusionConclusions
IntroductionPractices and Everyday Economic LivesThe Limits to Practices: Assets and PowerEconomic Practices and the Diverse EconomyEconomic Practices and (Post-)SocialismDomesticationConceptualizing the HouseholdSocial ReproductionConclusions
Introduction: Housing and Its GeographiesThe Transformation of Housing in Poland and SlovakiaHousing in Nowa Huta and PetržalkaCapitalizing on Housing AssetsNegotiating Housing Crises and Housing Market ExclusionHousing Costs, Energy Liberalization and PovertyConclusions
Introduction: Care and Its GeographiesTransforming Landscapes of Care: Neo-Liberalizing Care?Domestic Work and Family SupportNeighbours and NetworksNetworks of CareThe State and Other Institutional Forms of Care and SupportConclusions
Theorizing Neo-LiberalismNeo-Liberalization and Domestic Economic Policies in Post-SocialismNeo-Liberalism and the Polish Political EconomyNeo-Liberalism and the Slovak Political EconomyComparing Polish and Slovak Neo-liberalizationConclusions
Introduction: The Place of WorkTransformation and the Neo-Liberalization of Labour MarketsExperiencing Labour Market ChangeNegotiating Segmented Labour Markets and the Emergence of In-Work PovertyArticulations Beyond the Formal Labour MarketConclusions
In recent years, increasing attention has been paid within social and economic geography to questions of finance, particularly to the ways in which individuals and households domesticate developing financial institutions and products. However, there have been few analyses of these practices in the study of the postsocialist world, even though in ma...
This paper examines the transformations of urban labour markets in two central European cities: Bratislava, Slovakia and Kraków, Poland. It highlights the emergence of in-work poverty and labour market segmentation, which together are leading to a reconfiguration of the livelihoods and economic practices of urban households. The focus of the paper...
A. Rochovská, M. Blažek, M. Sokol: Adding quality to geography: on the importance of qualitative research in human geography. Geografický časopis, 59, 2007, 4, 3 tabs., 115 refs.
This article aims to highlight the importance of qualitative methods in geographical research. It argues that qualitative methods offer important opportunities for improvi...
This paper examines the ways in which neo-liberalism is both constructed and made ‘more tolerable’ through everyday practices and livelihoods in post-socialist cities. It argues that existing conceptualisations of neo-liberalism centre too fully on the role of powerful global forces and institutions in constructing marketisation processes, and cons...
Drawing upon research in Nowa Huta (Kraków, Poland), the paper investigates the economic conditions of households and individuals in this large post-socialist housing estate, where the context of social exclusion and poverty emerges from the introduction of market-based mechanisms. Starting from the characteristics of households and individuals, th...
This paper explores some of the consequences of neo-liberalism in the transformation of urban social life in "post-socialist" cities. The paper highlights the centrality of neo-liberalism in framing "post-socialist" societies, and introduces the work by Anglo-American geographers on the emergence of a model of global neo-liberalism. The paper goes...
This article aims to highlight the importance of qualitative methods in geographical research. It argues that qualitative methods offer important opportunities for improving research in human geography. For this reason, qualitative approaches have received much attention in Western geographical theory and practice. This is demonstrated through the...
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Projects (4)
The main objective of the research project is to define causality between spatial localisation of Roma settlements, including physical infrastructure conditions and spatial localisation of employment opportunities. The specific objective of the project is to identify: (i) living conditions including qualification profile of this segment of
population, in selected three territories in marginalized regions of Slovakia and (ii) the localisation and structure of disposable employment opportunities in the same selected territories. Recommendations aimed at improvement of the access of marginalized groups to the labor market.
Project was supposed to bring a significant shift in deep causal knowledge of connection between spatial and social inequalities in post-socialist society.
Hlavným cieľom projektu je analyzovať impakty a efektivitu prijímaných opatrení pomocou kvantitatívnych a kvalitatívnych metód.
