Zdeněk Uherek
Biographic Data
| ID | 131855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zdeněk Uherek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zdeněk |
| FAMILY NAME | Uherek |
| SIGNATURE | UHEREK Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0817-000X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Public Green Spaces in Prague Housing Estates
This article examines public green spaces in housing estates in Central Europe, using Prague as an example.The research leverages a dataset derived from a survey conducted among residents of housing estates in Prague that were built between the 1960s and the 1980s and compares the survey results with data collected in the inner city.This article asks how people who live in Prague conceptualise public space and questions whether they consider publ…
Produkční rybářství v naracích lokálních stakeholderů
The text is based on a qualitative survey with stakeholders directly or indirectly engaged in fish farming in ponds of Blatn or Blatensko region, Czech Republic. The dialog between them and academicians is directed to the fishery culture, its tradition, present, problems and possibilities of increasing the quality or prosperity of production. Stakeholders' answers are essentially narratives, and the text is constructed as a compilation of individ…
Romani migration from the Czech Republic to Canada
From the 1990s to the beginning of the twenty-first century, Romani migration from Central and Eastern Europe to Western countries was an important political issue that was regularly communicated in the mass media. Media attention was drawn predominantly to cases where Romani in Western countries applied for asylum. This text deals with one of the most heavily publicised cases; the migration of Romani from the Czech Republic to Canada. The text s…
Undercommunicated Stories in Boundary Building Processes
This text focuses on the narrations of Romani in the Czech Republic with regard to conversational topics which are usually not communicated in either conversations across group borders or in the media. The topics covered in these conversations range from everyday life issues and stories about success in employment to stories about experiences during powerful moments in the state's history that resonate for all its inhabitants. The narratives anal…
Czech and Slovak Romani on the path abroad
Migration is an important catalyst for personal and community change. This text deals with the self-presentation of Romani migrants from the Czech and Slovak Republics to countries of Western Europe and further overseas. In the introduction, I briefly contextualize the issue of migration from Central Europe and characterize the actors as a settled population, i.e. as subject to the same migration laws as the majority population of the mentioned s…
Obranné strategie obyvatelstva českého a ukrajinského původu na Ukrajině vyvolané následky černobylské nukleární havárie
The text focuses on the theme of health care and amateur treatment in the extreme conditions of increased radiation after the explosion of the nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl power plant. It reconstructs the situation of residents in the surroundings of the Chernobyl power plant, of which a part resettled in the Czech Republic, and analyses the relationship of the new state of affairs for folk healing. The text indicated the logic of the adaptat…
The Defensive Strategies of Czech and Ukrainian Residents in the Ukraine against the Effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
The text focuses on the theme of health care and amateur treatment in the extreme conditions of increased radiation after the explosion of the nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant. It reconstructs the plight of the population from the accounts of residents living near the Chernobyl power plant, some of whom resettled in the Czech Republic, and analyses the relationship of the new state of affairs for folk healing. The text shows the logic…
Roma Migration from Slovakia in the Context of European Migration Trends
The article looks at the issue of Roma migration from Slovakia and places it in the context of European post-communist migration in the 1990s and migration from eastern to western Europe in the early 21st century.The article is based mainly on qualitative data that the author and his colleagues collected in the form of migration biographies.The author shows that unlike Roma migration from Bulgaria and Romania to western states, migration from the…
Use of social science research on migration policy in the Czech Republic
Foreign Communities and Urban Space in the Czech Republic
The article introduces selected foreign communities that since the 1990s have become a part of the urban space of Czech towns and cities. It familiarises the reader with research into the Ukrainian, Slovak, Georgian, Chinese, and Vietnamese communities and argues that each of these communities has elected a slightly different strategy for adapting to the urban environment. The particular strategies that have been chosen range from that of the lab…
Ladislav Holý and Ernest Gellner
This study aims at comparing the method of work employed in the Central European region by two outstanding British social anthropologists of Czech origin. Ernest Gellner and Ladislav Hol, the two personalities who are the focus of this study, were in terms of their opinions very different from one another. Central Europe had a distinct significance for each of them, and they addressed it with different questions. The purpose of this text is not m…
L'ethnologie urbaine en pays tchèques
■ Zdenek Uherek: L'ethnologie urbaine en pays tchèques Depuis son apparition à la fin du xixe siècle jusqu'à 1948, l'ethnologie tchèque s'intéressait exclusivement au peuple des campagnes. Des travaux d'historiens de la culture et de sociologues portaient toutefois sur les traditions des groupes urbains en vue de les revivifier et, dans rentre-deux-guerres, l'étude des villes était développée surtout par des architectes et urbanistes rationaliste…
Foreign Communities and Urban Space in the Czech Republic
The article introduces selected foreign communities that since the 1990s have become a part of the urban space of Czech towns and cities. It familiarises the reader with research into the Ukrainian, Slovak, Georgian, Chinese, and Vietnamese communities and argues that each of these communities has elected a slightly different strategy for adapting to the urban environment. The particular strategies that have been chosen range from that of the lab…
Czech and Slovak Romani on the path abroad
Migration is an important catalyst for personal and community change. This text deals with the self-presentation of Romani migrants from the Czech and Slovak Republics to countries of Western Europe and further overseas. In the introduction, I briefly contextualize the issue of migration from Central Europe and characterize the actors as a settled population, i.e. as subject to the same migration laws as the majority population of the mentioned s…
L'ethnologie urbaine en pays tchèques
■ Zdenek Uherek: L'ethnologie urbaine en pays tchèques Depuis son apparition à la fin du xixe siècle jusqu'à 1948, l'ethnologie tchèque s'intéressait exclusivement au peuple des campagnes. Des travaux d'historiens de la culture et de sociologues portaient toutefois sur les traditions des groupes urbains en vue de les revivifier et, dans rentre-deux-guerres, l'étude des villes était développée surtout par des architectes et urbanistes rationaliste…
Ladislav Holý and Ernest Gellner
This study aims at comparing the method of work employed in the Central European region by two outstanding British social anthropologists of Czech origin. Ernest Gellner and Ladislav Hol, the two personalities who are the focus of this study, were in terms of their opinions very different from one another. Central Europe had a distinct significance for each of them, and they addressed it with different questions. The purpose of this text is not m…
Foreign Communities and Urban Space in the Czech Republic
The article introduces selected foreign communities that since the 1990s have become a part of the urban space of Czech towns and cities. It familiarises the reader with research into the Ukrainian, Slovak, Georgian, Chinese, and Vietnamese communities and argues that each of these communities has elected a slightly different strategy for adapting to the urban environment. The particular strategies that have been chosen range from that of the lab…
Use of social science research on migration policy in the Czech Republic
Roma Migration from Slovakia in the Context of European Migration Trends
The article looks at the issue of Roma migration from Slovakia and places it in the context of European post-communist migration in the 1990s and migration from eastern to western Europe in the early 21st century.The article is based mainly on qualitative data that the author and his colleagues collected in the form of migration biographies.The author shows that unlike Roma migration from Bulgaria and Romania to western states, migration from the…
Obranné strategie obyvatelstva českého a ukrajinského původu na Ukrajině vyvolané následky černobylské nukleární havárie
The text focuses on the theme of health care and amateur treatment in the extreme conditions of increased radiation after the explosion of the nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl power plant. It reconstructs the situation of residents in the surroundings of the Chernobyl power plant, of which a part resettled in the Czech Republic, and analyses the relationship of the new state of affairs for folk healing. The text indicated the logic of the adaptat…
The Defensive Strategies of Czech and Ukrainian Residents in the Ukraine against the Effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
The text focuses on the theme of health care and amateur treatment in the extreme conditions of increased radiation after the explosion of the nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant. It reconstructs the plight of the population from the accounts of residents living near the Chernobyl power plant, some of whom resettled in the Czech Republic, and analyses the relationship of the new state of affairs for folk healing. The text shows the logic…
Czech and Slovak Romani on the path abroad
Migration is an important catalyst for personal and community change. This text deals with the self-presentation of Romani migrants from the Czech and Slovak Republics to countries of Western Europe and further overseas. In the introduction, I briefly contextualize the issue of migration from Central Europe and characterize the actors as a settled population, i.e. as subject to the same migration laws as the majority population of the mentioned s…
Undercommunicated Stories in Boundary Building Processes
This text focuses on the narrations of Romani in the Czech Republic with regard to conversational topics which are usually not communicated in either conversations across group borders or in the media. The topics covered in these conversations range from everyday life issues and stories about success in employment to stories about experiences during powerful moments in the state's history that resonate for all its inhabitants. The narratives anal…
Produkční rybářství v naracích lokálních stakeholderů
The text is based on a qualitative survey with stakeholders directly or indirectly engaged in fish farming in ponds of Blatn or Blatensko region, Czech Republic. The dialog between them and academicians is directed to the fishery culture, its tradition, present, problems and possibilities of increasing the quality or prosperity of production. Stakeholders' answers are essentially narratives, and the text is constructed as a compilation of individ…
Romani migration from the Czech Republic to Canada
From the 1990s to the beginning of the twenty-first century, Romani migration from Central and Eastern Europe to Western countries was an important political issue that was regularly communicated in the mass media. Media attention was drawn predominantly to cases where Romani in Western countries applied for asylum. This text deals with one of the most heavily publicised cases; the migration of Romani from the Czech Republic to Canada. The text s…
Public Green Spaces in Prague Housing Estates
This article examines public green spaces in housing estates in Central Europe, using Prague as an example.The research leverages a dataset derived from a survey conducted among residents of housing estates in Prague that were built between the 1960s and the 1980s and compares the survey results with data collected in the inner city.This article asks how people who live in Prague conceptualise public space and questions whether they consider publ…
Political science (7 works) · Czech (6 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (3 works)