Zuzana Uhde

• PhD
• Researcher at Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology

This chapter presents an analysis of the lived experiences of Czech cross-border care workers who work in Germany in live-in care for seniors. It uses the analytical lens of borderscapes of care, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic, the borderscapes of care became a microcosm of the social reproductive contradictions of capitalism. The chapter ana...

Transnational migrants and their struggles have become central for rethinking cosmopolitanism from below. This chapter builds on the theoretical and empirical arguments of the critical cosmopolitan perspective and proposals for methodological cosmopolitanism, which shifts the angle from which the social sciences look at social reality. Who is regar...

The chapter analyzes the political economy of transnational migration to shed light on the structural sources of transnational migration and how the geopolitical economy determines political responses to transnational migration. The author argues that global capital benefits from the economic order which produces the structural causes of migration...

This volume addresses the main underlying causes of care migration and aims to draw attention to the increasing inequalities in provision and access to care on a European scale. The book focuses on care migra- tion from and to central and eastern European countries and contains chapters on migration to and from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,...

Las prácticas de migración transnacional representan un desafío para las ciencias sociales y la articulación teórica de la justicia global. Este artículo sitúa las prácticas de migración transnacional en el contexto de una economía geopolítica de globalización capitalista y se argumenta la necesidad de abandonar el nacionalismo metodológico como ma...

Full texts of the special issue Contested Borders: Transnational Migration and Gender is available at https://www.genderonline.cz/en/issue/47-volume-20-number-1-2019-contested-borders-transnational-migration-and-gender

The chapter develops an approach to the articulation of migrants’ claims and, in particular, gendered claims for global justice. This approach embeds the cosmopolitan critical theory of global justice in people’s everyday critique of structural injustice. The author builds on critical theory, especially that advanced by Axel Honneth, Marek Hrubec,...

The issue of eldercare is becoming more and more important in late modern societies due to the aging of the population and the growing need for care. The article deals with formal care for older people (in residential facilities and home care) with a focus on the Czech Republic as one of the former real-socialist countries. Here, a significant tran...

This paper explores the possibilities of the recognition and valuation of care by implementing an unconditional basic income (UBI) and presents a feminist redefinition of the concept of a UBI. The author proposes the notion of a caring revolutionary transformation as a process of institutionalising the social and economic conditions for recognition...

The article focuses on structural causes of migration, putting forward an argument that such analysis sheds light on key shortcomings of today’s global geopolitical regime. First the author analyzes structural causes of transnational migration in global capitalism. She argues that transnational migrants represent a structural group of people who fi...

O artigo apresenta uma análise crítica da instituição da cuidado doméstico contratado no contexto do capitalismo global. A autora começa por esboçar o contexto da sociedade moderna tardia nas regiões europeias e anglo-americanas em que as desigualdades globais e o aumento intensivo do capitalismo reforçam um modelo de mercado de cuidados e, consequ...

This article develops a critical analysis of transformations of the idea and practice of women's emancipation in late-modern western society under the influence of globalizing advanced capitalism. It builds on analyses of feminist critical theory and critical globalization studies and argues that global capitalism initiates processes in which the p...

Full text: http://www.genderonline.cz/cs/issue/39-rocnik-16-cislo-2-2015-transnacionalni-feminismus/454 The eight Millennium Development Goals agreed upon at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 approached their deadline in 2015. They focused on reducing extreme poverty and hunger in the world as well as building foundations for social development by...

The author develops a critical diagnosis of the changing interpretations of the concept of emancipation of women due to broader socio-economic transformations and the expansion of the market into most domains of social life. In the first part she briefly outlines the historical context in which the feminist emancipation claims were put into practic...

During the latter half of the twentieth century, women’s movements across Europe succeeded in placing child care on the political agenda. They have challenged the unequal distribution of care between women and men and between the private and public spheres, as well as the general lack of recognition of care in society (e.g. Bergqvist, Kuusipalo and...

On Sources of Structural Injustice: A Feminist Reading of the Theory of Iris M. Young The author focuses on a critical theory of justice and democracy by Iris Marion Young. Young's normative approach to justice and the institutional framework of inclusive democracy develops out of her critique of injustice. In the first section the author explains...

The author of this article focuses on the theoretical framework of the concept of care as a critical category of social inequality in order to outline possibilities for a redefinition of the relationship between work and care. Gender inequalities as well as inequalities that are based on other social categories, such as class, ethnicity, nationalit...

Sociologický časopis 45(1):9-29 · January 2009 The author of this article focuses on the theoretical framework of the concept of care as a critical category of social inequality in order to outline possibilities for a redefinition of the relationship between work and care. Gender inequalities as well as inequalities that are based on other social...

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