Tereza Virtová
Biographic Data
| ID | 179602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tereza Virtová |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tereza |
| FAMILY NAME | Virtová |
| SIGNATURE | VIRTOVÁ T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4885-1387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘My selfish need to do good’
Sociology has long treated the work ethic as a key lens for analysing the ideological shifts of capitalism. Drawing on ethnographic research in emerging ethical enterprises in the Czech Republic, this article explores work subjectivity and attachment to work among novice ethical entrepreneurs and employees, termed the ‘solutionist work ethic’ (Morozov, 2013; Nachtwey & Seidl, 2020). The study examines the internal logics and contradictions of thi…
Project work strategies in fusion research
In this article, we examine and discuss observations on projectification from organizational and management studies and contextualize them with recent insights from the discourse around social acceleration. Against the backdrop of these debates, we ethnographically inquire into project work strategies in fusion research. First, we briefly survey existing scholarship that interrogates acceleration and projectification of research. Second, we expla…
Against reductionism
There are two kinds of often intertwined arguments accounting for innovative appraisals of the current developments in scientific landscape. The first maintains that science is not in any way different from other social realms and can be characterized by unprecedented dynamization (or acceleration) observable on various levels and in different dimensions that constitute scientific activities. The second position, often stemming from the first, is…
On the Track of C/overt Research
Despite the growing body of literature that critically assesses the ambiguous impacts of institutional review boards (IRBs) on anthropological research, the key standards on which the IRB evaluations are based often remain unquestioned. By exposing the genealogy of an undercover research in which the authors participated as ethnographer, supervisor, and research participant, this article problematizes some of these standards and addresses the iss…
Against reductionism
There are two kinds of often intertwined arguments accounting for innovative appraisals of the current developments in scientific landscape. The first maintains that science is not in any way different from other social realms and can be characterized by unprecedented dynamization (or acceleration) observable on various levels and in different dimensions that constitute scientific activities. The second position, often stemming from the first, is…
On the Track of C/overt Research
Despite the growing body of literature that critically assesses the ambiguous impacts of institutional review boards (IRBs) on anthropological research, the key standards on which the IRB evaluations are based often remain unquestioned. By exposing the genealogy of an undercover research in which the authors participated as ethnographer, supervisor, and research participant, this article problematizes some of these standards and addresses the iss…
Project work strategies in fusion research
In this article, we examine and discuss observations on projectification from organizational and management studies and contextualize them with recent insights from the discourse around social acceleration. Against the backdrop of these debates, we ethnographically inquire into project work strategies in fusion research. First, we briefly survey existing scholarship that interrogates acceleration and projectification of research. Second, we expla…
On the Track of C/overt Research
Despite the growing body of literature that critically assesses the ambiguous impacts of institutional review boards (IRBs) on anthropological research, the key standards on which the IRB evaluations are based often remain unquestioned. By exposing the genealogy of an undercover research in which the authors participated as ethnographer, supervisor, and research participant, this article problematizes some of these standards and addresses the iss…
Against reductionism
There are two kinds of often intertwined arguments accounting for innovative appraisals of the current developments in scientific landscape. The first maintains that science is not in any way different from other social realms and can be characterized by unprecedented dynamization (or acceleration) observable on various levels and in different dimensions that constitute scientific activities. The second position, often stemming from the first, is…
Project work strategies in fusion research
In this article, we examine and discuss observations on projectification from organizational and management studies and contextualize them with recent insights from the discourse around social acceleration. Against the backdrop of these debates, we ethnographically inquire into project work strategies in fusion research. First, we briefly survey existing scholarship that interrogates acceleration and projectification of research. Second, we expla…
‘My selfish need to do good’
Sociology has long treated the work ethic as a key lens for analysing the ideological shifts of capitalism. Drawing on ethnographic research in emerging ethical enterprises in the Czech Republic, this article explores work subjectivity and attachment to work among novice ethical entrepreneurs and employees, termed the ‘solutionist work ethic’ (Morozov, 2013; Nachtwey & Seidl, 2020). The study examines the internal logics and contradictions of thi…
Epistemology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Temporality (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Alternative medicine (1 works)