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Researcher in Political Geography. Current research interests are in themes of political symbolism in urban space, political graffiti, local politics, local identity, political-geographical education, political economy, European integration, and art. For more information see https://regpol.natur.cuni.cz/
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Graffiti is an important theme for our understanding of subcultural urban space and the 'shadows' of the city. This paper examines their spatial concentration in Holešovice district of the Czech capital Prague. Four theories have been used to explain the spati-ality of graffiti: territorial markers, broken window, spot theory, and political symboli...
The article follows up a contemporary discussion of the form of regional geography teaching, whose older concept leads to the reduction of problem-oriented topics typical of political geography, too. The aim of the article was to find out by the content analysis what political geography topics occur in school educational programs of Czech grammar s...
The main purpose of this methodology is to support political geography teaching in general education in a qualified way. This is a very lively, changing and interdisciplinary issue that has considerable educational potential. The authors' ambition is to offer a wide range of opportunities for political geography teaching, from which teachers can ch...
Memorials, as pieces of art in public space, have not only an aesthetic function, but also a commemorative, representative, and ideological one. They materialize social discourse and national values that change over time. The social relationship to memorials shapes their symbolism, which is a part of the political symbolic space. The aim of the art...
In February 2022, the Russian army attacked Ukraine, which aroused resistance across Europe. The aim of the paper is to analyse spatial concentration and the meaning of associated political graffiti in Prague, Czechia, reflecting reactions to this geopolitical shift. Our approach focuses on the spatial aspect of the socio-semiotic analysis, reveali...
Political geography helps to understand the political process at all levels of politics and its wide range of contexts. This article presents a variety of jobs in which the combination of political and geographical thinking that the discipline offers can be put into practice. As we have found, our graduates are doing meritorious and highly signific...
The aim of this article is to analyze the capital drain among individual European Union (EU) member states and its cohesive and political consequences. Since the capital drain has not yet been calculated at the individual country level, the methodological part of this article delves into this calculation in more detail. Between 1999 and 2018, Irela...
The aim of the article is to present the Mediterranean region in terms of political instability. It is manifested in various forms, from social problems, through anti-government protests, revolutions, to tendencies of regionalism, separatism, and armed conflicts. The political development of the region is described in the context of significant geo...
In 1992, political representations agreed on the division of Czechoslovakia without involving the public. Since 1993, Czech and Slovak politics have gone their separate ways. The aim of this article is to present and to compare politics’ development of both countries and key moments that have accompanied it until present. In general, the developmen...
The intensification of globalization over the last few decades has generated a growing interest among inhabitants and businesses in regional environments and imageries. This includes the interest in regional food, such as the labelling and promotion of food tied to a specific place. The beer industry, in particular, offers comprehensive insights in...
The geography of the brewing industry is currently undergoing substantial shifts. While most attention has been paid to the boom of microbreweries, newly established regional breweries have been neglected and little is known about how they are gaining a position among consumers in stable and saturated markets. The aim of this article is to investig...
Tax havens have been around since the 19th century, but they are still a topical issue. We find them mostly in Central America, the Pacific Ocean, and, surprisingly, in Europe. Tax havens in the economic peripheries of the world drain tax revenues from the core countries and prosper economically thanks to this drain. Contrary, the tax havens in the...
Europe has experienced a major boom of new breweries over the last thirty years, with thousands of new breweries being set up, even in regions where brewing has no history. So far, however, this microbrewing wave has not been systematically mapped. This paper presents a unique database of European breweries from 1990–2020. Using a series of maps an...
Global industry has been undergoing changes in the concentration of brand ownership and production, with acquisitions and closures being a major factor in this evolution. The impacts of such activities are commonly studied from an economic perspective and from the perspective of internal firm-level and deal-level factors, while the influence of ext...
The Visegrad Group is a Central European international alliance that provides a framework for cooperation and promotion of the interests of Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary. The article aims to present the roots of this alliance founded in 1991, to compare it with other international organizations and to present its development and goals that...
Graffiti is a frequently discussed social topic and an important theme of geographical research in the shared urban space. The aim of this article is to present this subcultural phenomenon from the view of spatial theories explaining the causes of graffiti concentration. The article also offers suggestions for teaching, which can engage students in...
Home education is becoming an important issue for education policy in almost every country across Europe. It should also be of potential interest to the geography of education which, however, has remained the domain of research to educational studies. Consequently, no studies currently compare the individual aspects of home education by looking for...
„Publikace mapuje místa domácího vzdělávání, která byla dosud zkoumána jen málo, nebo vůbec, v tom spočívá její velká zásluha. Autoři využili širokou škálu výzkumných a analytických metod a podařilo se jim vytvořit významný příspěvek k poznání rozsahem sice malého, ale z hlediska vývoje inovativních přístupů velice důležitého segmentu českého vzděl...
Přestěhování se z rodné země do jiné, v některých případech velmi geograficky vzdálené, přináší řadu aspektů, které jsou majoritní populaci neznámé a často jen těžko představitelné. Děti, které tento proces podstupují, mnohdy trpí vytržením z jejich sociálního zázemí, vzdalují se od širší rodiny, od přátel a kamarádů, dostávají se do prostředí, ve...
The European brewing industry has experienced considerable development related to the changes of beer production volume. These trends are generalised by Vernon's concept of product life-cycle that is already anchored in the economic geography. The differences of its growth, maturity and decline stages are important to study transnational corporatio...
The closeness of local politics to citizens and the possibility of relatively easy participation should be also supported by consistent awareness in schools. The aim of the article is therefore to find out the position of local politics in secondary geographical education. The identified brevity could lead to ignorance or lack of interest in the po...
The development of globalisation has ushered in fundamental changes that have led to a break in the relationship between places of production and places of consumption, and sometimes a rejection of global products and corporations at the local level in accordance with neolocalism. The objective of the article is to examine the effect of regional id...
Domácí vzdělávání je v současnosti aktuálním tématem školství takřka v celé Evropě. Objevuje se jako staronová alternativa k tradičnímu školnímu způsobu vzdělávání a zahrnuje přístupy, kdy jsou děti primárně individuálně vzdělávány svými rodiči či jimi pověřenými osobami. Na evropském kontinentě lze identifikovat poměrně pestrou škálu různých forem...
This paper aims to introduce a case study of Czechia in distribution of the EU funds and their spatial patterns. EU funds receive plenty attention from both European society and the scientific community. However, there is a lack of detailed evaluations of spatial and sectoral differentiation, which might bring a better understanding to the whole EU...
Článek se snaží přispět do diskuze konceptu sociální odpovědnosti firem méně studovanou oblastí dopadů příspěvků od firem na lokální a regionální rozvoj z pohledu samospráv a obyvatel obcí. Tento koncept je nejčastěji studován z pohledu korporací a bez prostorové dimenze, která ale hraje nezanedbatelnou roli v rozhodování firem o alokaci prostředků...
Home education is a present-day topic of
academic and social discussions in Czechia and Europe. However, approaches to this form of
education and prevailing arguments in debates significantly vary across the continent according
to social traditions as well as historical and present-day developmen t in individual countries.
Based on a study of liter...
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain and especially since joining the European Union, the Czech Republic has become a country with a sharply growing number of immigrants, who more and more often are coming to the country with the purpose of settling long term and starting a family. This change places demands on society as a whole but also on particul...
The integration of immigrant children into the education system is a process that is accompanied by serious debate, especially in advanced countries, which have large shares of immigrants and a long history of immigration. The poorer educational outcomes of foreign-born children are largely explained there through their socio-economically disadvant...
Much of the current research in economic geography focuses on spatial distribution of industries and their market competition. As the data about localization are relatively easily accessible, empirical studies are often conducted. However, our knowledge of retail distribution strategies is still incomplete. By examining 54 Czech breweries and their...
Much of the current research in economic geography focuses on spatial distribution of industries and their market competition. As the data about localization are relatively easily accessible, empirical studies are often conducted. However, our knowledge of retail distribution strategies is still incomplete. By examining 54 Czech breweries and their...
Mezi hlavní zájmy politiků patří politická, finanční i legislativní podpora svých volebních obvodů či bydlišť. Článek se pokouší odhalit pravidelnosti v prostorovém vzorci poslaneckých dotací, o kterých poslanci rozhodovali během projednávání návrhu státního rozpočtu v Poslanecké sněmovně (porcování medvěda), na základě analýzy významu lokalizace p...
The purpose of this article is to contribute to the study of parliamentary grants (also known as “pork barrel”) through a case study focusing on the grant application process from the perspective of municipal representatives and the perception of the grants’ development potential by inhabitants of such municipalities. Existing studies have consider...
Role státu v regionálním rozvoji: aplikace současných teorií regionálního rozvoje na případ vybraných podpůrných programů The role of the state in regional development: application of contemporary regional development theories in the case of selected support programs
The article aims to contribute to the research on MPs’ or ministry grants, generally known as pork barrel, by study of spatial differentiation of the Ministry of Regional Development program of the Support of Regional Development grants distribution in Czechia in 2004–2012 at the level of districts. It differentiates inner structure of pork barrel...
The paper focuses on the regional differention in allocation of the financial resources distributed through parliamentary grants in the period of 2003 - 2007. The aim is to contribute to the debate on public financial flows within the territory of the Czech Republic as it has been recognised by both scholars and some policy-makers on the internatio...
The paper focuses on the regional differention in allocation of the financial resources distributed through parliamentary grants in the period of 2003 - 2007. The aim is to contribute to the debate on public financial flows within the territory of the Czech Republic as it has been recognised by both scholars and some policy-makers on the internatio...
