Zuzana Uhde
Biographic Data
| ID | 307193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zuzana Uhde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zuzana |
| FAMILY NAME | Uhde |
| SIGNATURE | UHDE Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9885-4260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Extracting care from women on the move
This paper explores how practices of extraction in marketized care alter and intensify the exploitation of women on the move. Drawing on interviews with Czech cross-border workers in long-term care within the EU’s open borders, Ukrainian women refugees under temporal protection, and migrants with a work permit in Czechia, we analyse the interplay of market and state dynamics in organizing transnational care labour. Considering bordering practices…
Retour à la réalité après les élections tchèques
Les partis populistes d’extrême droite ont remporté les élections législatives d’octobre 2025 en République tchèque. La Chambre des députés sera même dépourvue de toute représentation de gauche. Les promesses non tenues des années 1990, et l’assimilation de la démocratie au capitalisme, expliquent en partie ce résultat
The European care border regime
In the European Union (EU), a significant portion of migrant care workers comprise European citizens from Central and Eastern EU member states. Partly due to the closing of EU inner borders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, East–West inequalities and the exploitation of cross-border EU workers have become a visible public topic. The article suggests that the intra-EU workers’ border crossings provide an important sociological insight into the…
Transnational Migration Contesting Borders of Responsibility for Justice
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 find themselves in a similar position in relation to social structures of current global economic arch…
Global Conflicts and Local Interactions
Caring Revolutionary Transformation
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 of care which is a cornerstone of struggles for women’s emancipation and gender equity. It is a pro…
From Women's Struggles to Distorted Emancipation
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 practice of emancipation is distorted. Distorted emancipation refers to the social consequences of th…
Social bias within the institution of hired domestic care
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, consequentemente, também a instituição de cuidados domésticos contratados que cada vez mais envolve migrant…
People Know What They Need. An Interview with Women Activists in Zambia
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 providing primary education, basic health care or employment to the global poor. Although they provided some tools to combat human suffering, the MDGs were also criticized for being disembedded from local …
On Sources of Structural Injustice
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 Young's approach to structural injustice, which she conceptualizes in terms of domination and oppres…
Towards a Feminist Concept of Care as a Critical Category of Social Inequality
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, nationality, geopolitical location, marital status, and so on are incorporated in the social organisation of c…
From Women's Struggles to Distorted Emancipation
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 practice of emancipation is distorted. Distorted emancipation refers to the social consequences of th…
Social bias within the institution of hired domestic care
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, consequentemente, também a instituição de cuidados domésticos contratados que cada vez mais envolve migrant…
Towards a Feminist Concept of Care as a Critical Category of Social Inequality
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, nationality, geopolitical location, marital status, and so on are incorporated in the social organisation of c…
On Sources of Structural Injustice
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 Young's approach to structural injustice, which she conceptualizes in terms of domination and oppres…
Transnational Migration Contesting Borders of Responsibility for Justice
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 find themselves in a similar position in relation to social structures of current global economic arch…
Global Conflicts and Local Interactions
Towards a Feminist Concept of Care as a Critical Category of Social Inequality
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, nationality, geopolitical location, marital status, and so on are incorporated in the social organisation of c…
On Sources of Structural Injustice
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 Young's approach to structural injustice, which she conceptualizes in terms of domination and oppres…
People Know What They Need. An Interview with Women Activists in Zambia
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 providing primary education, basic health care or employment to the global poor. Although they provided some tools to combat human suffering, the MDGs were also criticized for being disembedded from local …
From Women's Struggles to Distorted Emancipation
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 practice of emancipation is distorted. Distorted emancipation refers to the social consequences of th…
Social bias within the institution of hired domestic care
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, consequentemente, também a instituição de cuidados domésticos contratados que cada vez mais envolve migrant…
Caring Revolutionary Transformation
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 of care which is a cornerstone of struggles for women’s emancipation and gender equity. It is a pro…
Transnational Migration Contesting Borders of Responsibility for Justice
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 find themselves in a similar position in relation to social structures of current global economic arch…
Global Conflicts and Local Interactions
Extracting care from women on the move
This paper explores how practices of extraction in marketized care alter and intensify the exploitation of women on the move. Drawing on interviews with Czech cross-border workers in long-term care within the EU’s open borders, Ukrainian women refugees under temporal protection, and migrants with a work permit in Czechia, we analyse the interplay of market and state dynamics in organizing transnational care labour. Considering bordering practices…
Retour à la réalité après les élections tchèques
Les partis populistes d’extrême droite ont remporté les élections législatives d’octobre 2025 en République tchèque. La Chambre des députés sera même dépourvue de toute représentation de gauche. Les promesses non tenues des années 1990, et l’assimilation de la démocratie au capitalisme, expliquent en partie ce résultat
The European care border regime
In the European Union (EU), a significant portion of migrant care workers comprise European citizens from Central and Eastern EU member states. Partly due to the closing of EU inner borders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, East–West inequalities and the exploitation of cross-border EU workers have become a visible public topic. The article suggests that the intra-EU workers’ border crossings provide an important sociological insight into the…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Capitalism (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Inequality (3 works)