Michal Synek
Biographic Data
| ID | 341330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michal Synek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michal |
| FAMILY NAME | Synek |
| SIGNATURE | SYNEK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3992-2286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
At home in the ‘home’? Narratives of home in repertoires of institutional dining
Home is not only a concrete place and a complex system of relations, but also an end-in-view that connects perceived shortcomings in the current versions of home with the desired goals and the means to achieve them. Our case study centres on a dining improvement project which strives to create home in residential institutions for people identified as disabled by serving a ‘home-like meal’. We describe three versions of home that are enacted in re…
Everything's the Same, Everything's Halted
While many evaluations of the response from residential social services to the COVID-19 pandemic have pointed to high mortality rates and human rights violations, some have given a positive assessment of their performance. Whatever the verdict, it is a fact that the clients of residential social services were subject to stricter and longer lockdown measures than the rest of the population. Our ethnographic research describes the lockdown technolo…
The rest is noise
When we describe a thing, a person or a meeting, the simple question of what belongs in the picture becomes a methodological puzzle with serious practical and ethical consequences. A descriptive account touches the contours of what is being described, fluctuating between mere description and explanation and between paranoid and reparative writing. In our textual laboratory, we describe noise as a style of music and an example of cognitive multipl…
Obdělávat svou zahradu
Tento nejlep svt ze vech monch svt tvo udlosti, je spolu navzjem souvis, venkoncem vzato, kdyby ns nebyli vyhodili z jednoho zmku a nenakopali vs do zadku, protoe jste miloval Kunigundu, kdyby vs nebyla dostala do drp inkvisice, kdybyste neproel celou Ameriku, kdybyste byl nenapchl barona meem, kdybyste nebyl piel o vecky ovce z Eldorada, nepochutnval byste si zde na zavaovanch citronech a pistacich." "To jste ekl velmi dobe," odpovdal Candide, "…
The Dis/ability Coordinates of the Critical Gesture and Matters of Care
Critique is one of the social sciences' most respectable tasks, especially when its aim is to emancipate people oppressed for their otherness. However, there is also a critique of critique as a disabling tool, replacing the obvious actors revealed as 'fictitious' with synthetic objects that the critic herself deems more 'factual'. This article understands the critical gesture as a pragmatic resource for re-organising the field of dis/abilities. I…
Perfect etiquette
As a starting point for this article, the concept of diplomatic ethnography inspired by the work of Bruno Latour is presented as an ideal: a model for 'good anthropology', which truthfully follows members' actions and the associations they form with others, simultaneously respecting their values. The workability of this ideal is then ethnographically tested in a research setting where direct communication with actors about the results of the rese…
Perfect etiquette
As a starting point for this article, the concept of diplomatic ethnography inspired by the work of Bruno Latour is presented as an ideal: a model for ‘good anthropology’, which truthfully follows members’ actions and the associations they form with others, simultaneously respecting their values. The workability of this ideal is then ethnographically tested in a research setting where direct communication with actors about the results of the rese…
At home in the ‘home’? Narratives of home in repertoires of institutional dining
Home is not only a concrete place and a complex system of relations, but also an end-in-view that connects perceived shortcomings in the current versions of home with the desired goals and the means to achieve them. Our case study centres on a dining improvement project which strives to create home in residential institutions for people identified as disabled by serving a ‘home-like meal’. We describe three versions of home that are enacted in re…
Obdělávat svou zahradu
Tento nejlep svt ze vech monch svt tvo udlosti, je spolu navzjem souvis, venkoncem vzato, kdyby ns nebyli vyhodili z jednoho zmku a nenakopali vs do zadku, protoe jste miloval Kunigundu, kdyby vs nebyla dostala do drp inkvisice, kdybyste neproel celou Ameriku, kdybyste byl nenapchl barona meem, kdybyste nebyl piel o vecky ovce z Eldorada, nepochutnval byste si zde na zavaovanch citronech a pistacich." "To jste ekl velmi dobe," odpovdal Candide, "…
The Dis/ability Coordinates of the Critical Gesture and Matters of Care
Critique is one of the social sciences' most respectable tasks, especially when its aim is to emancipate people oppressed for their otherness. However, there is also a critique of critique as a disabling tool, replacing the obvious actors revealed as 'fictitious' with synthetic objects that the critic herself deems more 'factual'. This article understands the critical gesture as a pragmatic resource for re-organising the field of dis/abilities. I…
Perfect etiquette
As a starting point for this article, the concept of diplomatic ethnography inspired by the work of Bruno Latour is presented as an ideal: a model for ‘good anthropology’, which truthfully follows members’ actions and the associations they form with others, simultaneously respecting their values. The workability of this ideal is then ethnographically tested in a research setting where direct communication with actors about the results of the rese…
Perfect etiquette
As a starting point for this article, the concept of diplomatic ethnography inspired by the work of Bruno Latour is presented as an ideal: a model for 'good anthropology', which truthfully follows members' actions and the associations they form with others, simultaneously respecting their values. The workability of this ideal is then ethnographically tested in a research setting where direct communication with actors about the results of the rese…
Perfect etiquette
As a starting point for this article, the concept of diplomatic ethnography inspired by the work of Bruno Latour is presented as an ideal: a model for ‘good anthropology’, which truthfully follows members’ actions and the associations they form with others, simultaneously respecting their values. The workability of this ideal is then ethnographically tested in a research setting where direct communication with actors about the results of the rese…
The Dis/ability Coordinates of the Critical Gesture and Matters of Care
Critique is one of the social sciences' most respectable tasks, especially when its aim is to emancipate people oppressed for their otherness. However, there is also a critique of critique as a disabling tool, replacing the obvious actors revealed as 'fictitious' with synthetic objects that the critic herself deems more 'factual'. This article understands the critical gesture as a pragmatic resource for re-organising the field of dis/abilities. I…
Obdělávat svou zahradu
Tento nejlep svt ze vech monch svt tvo udlosti, je spolu navzjem souvis, venkoncem vzato, kdyby ns nebyli vyhodili z jednoho zmku a nenakopali vs do zadku, protoe jste miloval Kunigundu, kdyby vs nebyla dostala do drp inkvisice, kdybyste neproel celou Ameriku, kdybyste byl nenapchl barona meem, kdybyste nebyl piel o vecky ovce z Eldorada, nepochutnval byste si zde na zavaovanch citronech a pistacich." "To jste ekl velmi dobe," odpovdal Candide, "…
The rest is noise
When we describe a thing, a person or a meeting, the simple question of what belongs in the picture becomes a methodological puzzle with serious practical and ethical consequences. A descriptive account touches the contours of what is being described, fluctuating between mere description and explanation and between paranoid and reparative writing. In our textual laboratory, we describe noise as a style of music and an example of cognitive multipl…
Everything's the Same, Everything's Halted
While many evaluations of the response from residential social services to the COVID-19 pandemic have pointed to high mortality rates and human rights violations, some have given a positive assessment of their performance. Whatever the verdict, it is a fact that the clients of residential social services were subject to stricter and longer lockdown measures than the rest of the population. Our ethnographic research describes the lockdown technolo…
At home in the ‘home’? Narratives of home in repertoires of institutional dining
Home is not only a concrete place and a complex system of relations, but also an end-in-view that connects perceived shortcomings in the current versions of home with the desired goals and the means to achieve them. Our case study centres on a dining improvement project which strives to create home in residential institutions for people identified as disabled by serving a ‘home-like meal’. We describe three versions of home that are enacted in re…
Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works)