Barbora Černušáková
Biographic Data
| ID | 139381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbora Černušáková |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbora |
| FAMILY NAME | Černušáková |
| SIGNATURE | ČERNUŠÁKOVÁ B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barbora Černušáková is a human rights researcher working on countries of the east-central European Union. Her PhD research at the University of Manchester focuses on class formation among Roma workers in Ostrava. |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9190-7622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Surplus lives under racial capitalism
Issues with ethnographic research
In conversation with the existing critiques of 'urban ethnography’, this chapter provides details about the methodology used for the research on which Surplused Lives is based. It unpacks the analytical process of linking direct ethnographic observations and narratives, which capture how people think and feel about the reality that surrounds them, with the structural forces at play – that of the relationship of labour and capital. The chapter als…
Roma Workers and the Disciplining of Labor Under Czech Racial Capitalism
This article theorizes the racialization of Roma within the first three decades of capitalism in East Central Europe. Its findings echo the studies of racial capitalism in other geographies where racialization operates as a vector of labor precarity and surplussing. But while racialized labor precarity in the post-imperial and settler colonial contexts remains linked to the legacies of slavery, apartheid, segregation, and border control, in Czech…
Disciplining of Roma workers through predatory debt in Czechia
Elena
Roma Workers under Czech Racial Capitalism
This article contributes to the theory of racial capitalism by focusing on racialization of labor in the post-socialist context. Drawing on fieldwork conducted with Roma workers in the city of Ostrava, the Czech Republic, the paper investigates the role of the Czech state in confining Roma to low-paid, precarious and informal work—and how dynamics of racialization figure in this relationship. State policies like job placement programs, I claim, e…
Rodina ako základná jednotka pre neoliberalizmus a konzervativizmus podľa Melindy Cooper
Stigma and segregation
This article analyses the lived experience of a Czech Roma community in Údol, Ostrava. Based on the author's participant-observation research, it demonstrates how certain neighbourhoods are increasingly targeted by policy measures which range from the denial of benefits to residents of certain areas to large-scale evictions or plans to demolish public housing. Such approaches are becoming a Europe-wide phenomenon. Although proponents of these mea…
Roma
Roma in the Czech Republic (as in a number of other European countries) are, in the public imagination, 'social parasites' who do not work, are not interested in working and opt for life on benefits instead. This article, based on ethnographic research in the city of Ostrava, reveals the contrary. Roma workers clean the streets and trains, fix the city's road infrastructure, dig up roads and replace water and gas pipelines. One reason for the 'in…
Stigma and segregation
This article analyses the lived experience of a Czech Roma community in Údol, Ostrava. Based on the author's participant-observation research, it demonstrates how certain neighbourhoods are increasingly targeted by policy measures which range from the denial of benefits to residents of certain areas to large-scale evictions or plans to demolish public housing. Such approaches are becoming a Europe-wide phenomenon. Although proponents of these mea…
Disciplining of Roma workers through predatory debt in Czechia
Roma
Roma in the Czech Republic (as in a number of other European countries) are, in the public imagination, 'social parasites' who do not work, are not interested in working and opt for life on benefits instead. This article, based on ethnographic research in the city of Ostrava, reveals the contrary. Roma workers clean the streets and trains, fix the city's road infrastructure, dig up roads and replace water and gas pipelines. One reason for the 'in…
Roma
Roma in the Czech Republic (as in a number of other European countries) are, in the public imagination, 'social parasites' who do not work, are not interested in working and opt for life on benefits instead. This article, based on ethnographic research in the city of Ostrava, reveals the contrary. Roma workers clean the streets and trains, fix the city's road infrastructure, dig up roads and replace water and gas pipelines. One reason for the 'in…
Rodina ako základná jednotka pre neoliberalizmus a konzervativizmus podľa Melindy Cooper
Stigma and segregation
This article analyses the lived experience of a Czech Roma community in Údol, Ostrava. Based on the author's participant-observation research, it demonstrates how certain neighbourhoods are increasingly targeted by policy measures which range from the denial of benefits to residents of certain areas to large-scale evictions or plans to demolish public housing. Such approaches are becoming a Europe-wide phenomenon. Although proponents of these mea…
Roma Workers under Czech Racial Capitalism
This article contributes to the theory of racial capitalism by focusing on racialization of labor in the post-socialist context. Drawing on fieldwork conducted with Roma workers in the city of Ostrava, the Czech Republic, the paper investigates the role of the Czech state in confining Roma to low-paid, precarious and informal work—and how dynamics of racialization figure in this relationship. State policies like job placement programs, I claim, e…
Elena
Disciplining of Roma workers through predatory debt in Czechia
Surplus lives under racial capitalism
Issues with ethnographic research
In conversation with the existing critiques of 'urban ethnography’, this chapter provides details about the methodology used for the research on which Surplused Lives is based. It unpacks the analytical process of linking direct ethnographic observations and narratives, which capture how people think and feel about the reality that surrounds them, with the structural forces at play – that of the relationship of labour and capital. The chapter als…
Roma Workers and the Disciplining of Labor Under Czech Racial Capitalism
This article theorizes the racialization of Roma within the first three decades of capitalism in East Central Europe. Its findings echo the studies of racial capitalism in other geographies where racialization operates as a vector of labor precarity and surplussing. But while racialized labor precarity in the post-imperial and settler colonial contexts remains linked to the legacies of slavery, apartheid, segregation, and border control, in Czech…
Romani and Gypsy Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Czech (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)