Slavomíra Ferenčuhová
Biographic Data
| ID | 1302287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Slavomíra Ferenčuhová |
| GIVEN NAMES | Slavomíra |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferenčuhová |
| SIGNATURE | FERENČUHOVÁ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Masaryk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7851-0321 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Unheeded knowledge? Thirty years of research on large housing estates in European post-socialist cities
From neighborhood detail to urban theory
Multiple and regionally specific organisational forms of urban studies
This short contribution comments on Bas van Heur's article ‘What, where and who is urban studies? On research centres in an unequal world’, a highly original analysis of the state of the art in urban studies complemented by provocative propositions to challenge existing global hierarchies of knowledge production. While I am enthusiastic about this work, I also propose considering in greater detail the interpretational risks associated with van He…
Public, private and the pandemic
Forum
Thinking relationally about socialist cities
This article makes a case for a relational approach to studying the history of ‘socialist cities’ in Europe as inherently interconnected with various other places through transnational links. It attempts to contribute to historians’ debates about the socialist city and to interlink them with the project of developing a ‘global urban studies’. To do so, it brings several examples from the history of urban planning and urban development in post-war…
Inconspicuous adaptations to climate change in everyday life
Adaptation to climate change is often understood as a top-down decision-making and policy-implementing process, as well as application of expert knowledge, to prevent or reduce its (locally specific) negative consequences. In high-income societies, adaptation at the household level then frequently refers to adopting technological fixes distributed through the market, sometimes at a considerable cost. Informed by a study in the context of Central …
Ethnographies of urban change
Since urban homelessness first appeared in modern cities, it has served as an indicator of the current socio-spatial order and of its change. Here, we turn our attention to cities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in an attempt to discuss homelessness and social change through these cities' specific historicity and their story of transition from state-socialism to a, mostly, neoliberalized global economy. We argue that this endeavor opens inspi…
Not so global climate change? Representations of post-socialist cities in the academic writings on climate change and urban areas
Climate change is the epitome of a global issue. Cities and their inhabitants face locally specific, yet still globally shared and interconnected problems from heat waves, storms, coastal or fluvial floods to water scarcity, all of which puts pressure on their infrastructure as well as social institutions. Yet, it has been argued that academic research on cities and climate change has so far represented the urban world fractionally, as most case …
Smart” quarantine and “blanket” quarantine
By the end of May 2020, the Czech response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been recognized as a "success" following the fast introduction of strict nationwide preventive measures, nicknamed a "blanket quarantine". This article focuses on the alternative and rival concept of a "smart quarantine", which emerged at the beginning of the lockdown. Inspired by Korean and Singaporean anti-COVID-19 smart city solutions, a group of ICT professionals voluntee…
Introduction
The main stimulus for this theme issue came from the perception shared by several scholars that “post-socialist” (or “post-communist cities”) cities are poorly visible in the urban studies literature, and that when they are, they fail to have an enduring influence on broader debates. Yet the post-socialist city, like any other place on earth, offers a unique source of, and potential for, new ideas, deserving more attention and more active engagem…
Conceptual forum
This conceptual forum consists of three contributions that critically assess the relevance of the theme issue’s central concept – the post-socialist city. By doing so, we elaborate on a long-standing discussion that has been taking place among urban scholars interested in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which is whether and to what extent “post-socialist” still makes sense to describe and understand what has been happening in this region’s citi…
Explicit Definitions and Implicit Assumptions about Post-Socialist Cities in Academic Writings
In the past five years, several critical commentaries have been published about the state of the art in research and theory on post-socialist cities. Besides overviewing and generalizing the findings of previous studies, authors have identified several weak points in this field. This paper attempts to echo this body of work through reflecting on one simple, yet crucial question that has emerged in some of the contributions. This question is what …
Accounts from behind the Curtain
This article seeks to contribute to the debate on the proposal to decentre urban theory and to develop postcolonial urban studies, and on the related issue of the geography of the production and circulation of knowledge. It focuses on how scholars writing about post-socialist cities explain why their sub-field has so far contributed little to urban theory, and it proposes an alternative-historically informed-perspective on the issue. Based on an …
Comfort, identity and fashion in the post-socialist city
This paper works at the intersection of three bodies of writing: theories relating to fashion, identity and the city; debate relating to urban materialities, assemblages and context; and cultural interventions advancing the study of post-socialism. Drawing on empirical research undertaken in Bratislava, Slovakia, we unpack a blurring of public and private space expressed through clothing. In contrast to elsewhere in the city, in Petržalka, a high…
Cultural Landscapes of Post‐Socialist Cities
Introduction
The main stimulus for this theme issue came from the perception shared by several scholars that “post-socialist” (or “post-communist cities”) cities are poorly visible in the urban studies literature, and that when they are, they fail to have an enduring influence on broader debates. Yet the post-socialist city, like any other place on earth, offers a unique source of, and potential for, new ideas, deserving more attention and more active engagem…
Conceptual forum
This conceptual forum consists of three contributions that critically assess the relevance of the theme issue’s central concept – the post-socialist city. By doing so, we elaborate on a long-standing discussion that has been taking place among urban scholars interested in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which is whether and to what extent “post-socialist” still makes sense to describe and understand what has been happening in this region’s citi…
Accounts from behind the Curtain
This article seeks to contribute to the debate on the proposal to decentre urban theory and to develop postcolonial urban studies, and on the related issue of the geography of the production and circulation of knowledge. It focuses on how scholars writing about post-socialist cities explain why their sub-field has so far contributed little to urban theory, and it proposes an alternative-historically informed-perspective on the issue. Based on an …
Comfort, identity and fashion in the post-socialist city
This paper works at the intersection of three bodies of writing: theories relating to fashion, identity and the city; debate relating to urban materialities, assemblages and context; and cultural interventions advancing the study of post-socialism. Drawing on empirical research undertaken in Bratislava, Slovakia, we unpack a blurring of public and private space expressed through clothing. In contrast to elsewhere in the city, in Petržalka, a high…
Forum
Ethnographies of urban change
Since urban homelessness first appeared in modern cities, it has served as an indicator of the current socio-spatial order and of its change. Here, we turn our attention to cities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in an attempt to discuss homelessness and social change through these cities' specific historicity and their story of transition from state-socialism to a, mostly, neoliberalized global economy. We argue that this endeavor opens inspi…
Smart” quarantine and “blanket” quarantine
By the end of May 2020, the Czech response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been recognized as a "success" following the fast introduction of strict nationwide preventive measures, nicknamed a "blanket quarantine". This article focuses on the alternative and rival concept of a "smart quarantine", which emerged at the beginning of the lockdown. Inspired by Korean and Singaporean anti-COVID-19 smart city solutions, a group of ICT professionals voluntee…
Explicit Definitions and Implicit Assumptions about Post-Socialist Cities in Academic Writings
In the past five years, several critical commentaries have been published about the state of the art in research and theory on post-socialist cities. Besides overviewing and generalizing the findings of previous studies, authors have identified several weak points in this field. This paper attempts to echo this body of work through reflecting on one simple, yet crucial question that has emerged in some of the contributions. This question is what …
Public, private and the pandemic
Inconspicuous adaptations to climate change in everyday life
Adaptation to climate change is often understood as a top-down decision-making and policy-implementing process, as well as application of expert knowledge, to prevent or reduce its (locally specific) negative consequences. In high-income societies, adaptation at the household level then frequently refers to adopting technological fixes distributed through the market, sometimes at a considerable cost. Informed by a study in the context of Central …
Not so global climate change? Representations of post-socialist cities in the academic writings on climate change and urban areas
Climate change is the epitome of a global issue. Cities and their inhabitants face locally specific, yet still globally shared and interconnected problems from heat waves, storms, coastal or fluvial floods to water scarcity, all of which puts pressure on their infrastructure as well as social institutions. Yet, it has been argued that academic research on cities and climate change has so far represented the urban world fractionally, as most case …
From neighborhood detail to urban theory
Cultural Landscapes of Post‐Socialist Cities
Comfort, identity and fashion in the post-socialist city
This paper works at the intersection of three bodies of writing: theories relating to fashion, identity and the city; debate relating to urban materialities, assemblages and context; and cultural interventions advancing the study of post-socialism. Drawing on empirical research undertaken in Bratislava, Slovakia, we unpack a blurring of public and private space expressed through clothing. In contrast to elsewhere in the city, in Petržalka, a high…
Introduction
The main stimulus for this theme issue came from the perception shared by several scholars that “post-socialist” (or “post-communist cities”) cities are poorly visible in the urban studies literature, and that when they are, they fail to have an enduring influence on broader debates. Yet the post-socialist city, like any other place on earth, offers a unique source of, and potential for, new ideas, deserving more attention and more active engagem…
Conceptual forum
This conceptual forum consists of three contributions that critically assess the relevance of the theme issue’s central concept – the post-socialist city. By doing so, we elaborate on a long-standing discussion that has been taking place among urban scholars interested in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which is whether and to what extent “post-socialist” still makes sense to describe and understand what has been happening in this region’s citi…
Explicit Definitions and Implicit Assumptions about Post-Socialist Cities in Academic Writings
In the past five years, several critical commentaries have been published about the state of the art in research and theory on post-socialist cities. Besides overviewing and generalizing the findings of previous studies, authors have identified several weak points in this field. This paper attempts to echo this body of work through reflecting on one simple, yet crucial question that has emerged in some of the contributions. This question is what …
Accounts from behind the Curtain
This article seeks to contribute to the debate on the proposal to decentre urban theory and to develop postcolonial urban studies, and on the related issue of the geography of the production and circulation of knowledge. It focuses on how scholars writing about post-socialist cities explain why their sub-field has so far contributed little to urban theory, and it proposes an alternative-historically informed-perspective on the issue. Based on an …
Not so global climate change? Representations of post-socialist cities in the academic writings on climate change and urban areas
Climate change is the epitome of a global issue. Cities and their inhabitants face locally specific, yet still globally shared and interconnected problems from heat waves, storms, coastal or fluvial floods to water scarcity, all of which puts pressure on their infrastructure as well as social institutions. Yet, it has been argued that academic research on cities and climate change has so far represented the urban world fractionally, as most case …
Smart” quarantine and “blanket” quarantine
By the end of May 2020, the Czech response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been recognized as a "success" following the fast introduction of strict nationwide preventive measures, nicknamed a "blanket quarantine". This article focuses on the alternative and rival concept of a "smart quarantine", which emerged at the beginning of the lockdown. Inspired by Korean and Singaporean anti-COVID-19 smart city solutions, a group of ICT professionals voluntee…
Thinking relationally about socialist cities
This article makes a case for a relational approach to studying the history of ‘socialist cities’ in Europe as inherently interconnected with various other places through transnational links. It attempts to contribute to historians’ debates about the socialist city and to interlink them with the project of developing a ‘global urban studies’. To do so, it brings several examples from the history of urban planning and urban development in post-war…
Inconspicuous adaptations to climate change in everyday life
Adaptation to climate change is often understood as a top-down decision-making and policy-implementing process, as well as application of expert knowledge, to prevent or reduce its (locally specific) negative consequences. In high-income societies, adaptation at the household level then frequently refers to adopting technological fixes distributed through the market, sometimes at a considerable cost. Informed by a study in the context of Central …
Ethnographies of urban change
Since urban homelessness first appeared in modern cities, it has served as an indicator of the current socio-spatial order and of its change. Here, we turn our attention to cities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in an attempt to discuss homelessness and social change through these cities' specific historicity and their story of transition from state-socialism to a, mostly, neoliberalized global economy. We argue that this endeavor opens inspi…
Forum
Multiple and regionally specific organisational forms of urban studies
This short contribution comments on Bas van Heur's article ‘What, where and who is urban studies? On research centres in an unequal world’, a highly original analysis of the state of the art in urban studies complemented by provocative propositions to challenge existing global hierarchies of knowledge production. While I am enthusiastic about this work, I also propose considering in greater detail the interpretational risks associated with van He…
Public, private and the pandemic
Unheeded knowledge? Thirty years of research on large housing estates in European post-socialist cities
From neighborhood detail to urban theory
Political science (13 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Urban Development and Cultural Heritage (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works)