Marta Kolářová

• Associate Professor (doc.)
• Senior Researcher at Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences

This paper examines negative opinions on the European Green Deal (EGD) by combining critical discourse analysis of three Czech media and public opinion data analysis based on a representative sample of 821 Czech adults. Against the backdrop of the EGD contestation in the media debate and disagreement among the public, we evaluate the impact of the...

Recently, there has been renewed interest in homemaking and domestic practices and the revival of domesticity has become related with pro-environmental values and sustainable lifestyles in Western societies. The turn to domesticity tends to be associated with women. While some authors warn of a return to traditional gender roles within the househol...

This article focuses on the contemporary back-to-the-land migration of permaculture practitioners in post-socialist (1989–) Czechia. It explores the ideals and practices of self-sufficiency among back-to-the-land migrants as they relate to their migration motives and post-migration life, including the fulfilment of a dream of self-sufficiency and l...

Youth music subcultures are often understood as a free space where everybody has equal opportunities to express themselves. A closer look into these subcultures suggests that there are barriers preventing women the same participation and status available to men. Based on theories and foreign literature the aim of this article is to describe and ana...

This book examines collective and individual forms of lifestyle politics and political consumerism in the environmental sphere. Lifestyle politics is about how citizens become involved in politics through their everyday decision-making and it includes the ethically, morally, and politically motivated choices they make about consumption, transport,...

The text focuses on definitions of subcultures and presents important approaches to study youth music subcultures – the Birmingham school and post-subcultural theories. The author debates the possibilities of applying these approaches in post-socialism and address post-socialist features of the Czech subcultures. In particular, the author argues th...

In our chapter we are trying to investigate a particularly under-researched topic, the Romanian popular musical genre manele (sg. manea) and its connections with a specific social reality—that of the marginalized and underprivileged—as well as with the relatively new political appropriation process of the manele initiated by a group of left-win...

This paper focuses on a grassroots community movement address-ing climate change: the transnational Transition (Towns) movement. While this movement has mainly spread to Anglophone countries, it is almost en-tirely absent from Eastern Europe and the Czech Republic in particular. The aim of this paper is to explain why the Transition movement—a gras...

The paper focuses on Czech alternative lifestyles and subcultures that cannot be defined by music and youth, hence using the concept of cultural creatives (Ray – Anderson 2000). This subculture has been formed by a convergence of social movements and countercultures since the 1960s. Based on a qualitative media analysis of Czech alternative lifesty...

Představují subkultury punkerů, skinheadů, ale také hiphoperů či technařů politický protest, nebo jen zábavu pro své účastníky? A co v takovémto prostředí vůbec znamená politika? Je obsahem subkulturního stylu, projevuje se až v interakci s mocí většinové společnosti, anebo se vyjednává uvnitř subkulturních scén podél takových témat, jako je jejich...

The paper examines gender aspects of the alter-globalization movement. Focusing mainly on demonstrations in Prague and Genoa, the research draws on participant observation, interviews with activists, analysis of the alternative media of the movement, and activist and scholarly literature. The participation of women and men, gender as a part of the...

Transnational feminism has become a significant global actor in recent decades, but it is not unanimous. Imperial tendencies of western feminists to influence women in other cultures have already appeared in the history of the feminist movement. Criticism of white Euro-American feminism, especially in the form of global sisterhood, has reached a pe...

This paper examines gender aspects of tactics of the alter-globalization movement. Focusing mainly on two transnational collective actions in Prague in 2000 and in Genoa in 2001, the research draws on participant observation, interviews with activists and analysis of the movement's alternative media. The feminist activism within the movement, the g...

Publikace se zabývá genderovými aspekty globalizace a antiglobalizačního hnutí ve světě a v České republice. Hlavní otázka, kterou si autorka položila, zní: Kde se setkává a míjí antiglobalizační kritika s feministickým pojetím globalizace? Práce představuje feministickou kritiku globalizace a její začlenění v antiglobalizačním diskurzu. Jako průse...

This article focuses on the intersection of gender, class and racial/ethnic inequalities. The intersection theory draws on the feminist critique of traditional class theory and on the challenge to feminism posed by ethnic women. The article develops thinking about various configurations of the intersection of inequalities and addresses mainly the c...

The article focuses on gender aspects of globalisation and global restructuring and criticises the masculine bias of mainstream theories of globalisation. It is aimed at adding a global dimension to Czech gender studies. It looks at the way in which globalisation is gendered and based on gender ideologies, and how global restructuring affects and c...

The article focuses on the visual representation of men and women in the anti-globalisation movement in the alternative media. Two specific occasions are addressed: the demonstrations in Prague (2000) and Genoa (2001). Semiotic and content analyses are applied in a comparison of British and Czech alterna-tive magazines. A brief history of the anti-...

The article focuses on the visual representation of men and women in the anti-globalisation movement in the alternative media. Two specific occasions are addressed: the demonstrations in Prague (2000) and Genoa (2001). Semiotic and content analyses are applied in a comparison of British and Czech alternative magazines. A brief history of the anti-g...

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