Jitka Kralova

Jitka Kralova
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  • Master of Science
  • PhD Student at University College London

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Introduction
I am a social antrhopologist currently based at the UCL. In my doctoral research, I examine the interplay of politics and personal indebtedness in a deindustrializing town situated in the region of North Bohemia, Czechia. My broader scholarly interests include the anthropology of capitalism and more specifically the study of inequality, precarity, and political mobilisation, particularly in post-socialist contexts.
Current institution
University College London
Current position
  • PhD Student
Additional affiliations
December 2019 - September 2020
University of Oxford
Position
  • Student
January 2025 - present
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Position
  • Research Associate
Education
October 2022
October 2019 - September 2020
University of Oxford
Field of study
  • Social Anthropology
September 2015 - May 2018
SOAS University of London
Field of study
  • Social Anthropology and Development Studies

Publications

Publications (2)
Research
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POPREBEL is a large-scale, interdisciplinary, Horizon 2020-funded research project on the rise of populism in Central and Eastern Europe, with the goal of understanding the “anatomy” of this phenomenon and its causes, assessing its potential consequences, and proposing actionable policy solutions. Within this project, the objective of Work Package...
Thesis
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Considering its central role within the international economy and neoliberal urbanism, tourism as an interconnected global phenomenon remains largely undertheorized. This paper seeks to rectify this omission by shifting ethnographic attention to the concrete ways in which urban tourism implicates itself in the global processes of capital accumulati...

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