Miroslav Michela
Biographic Data
| ID | 6939874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miroslav Michela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miroslav |
| FAMILY NAME | Michela |
| SIGNATURE | MICHELA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2134-5780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Completing the Velvet Revolution? Czech and Slovak Punk Zines and the Legacy of Cultural Opposition after 1989
This article explores the role of punk subculture and the independent punk press in shaping democratic transformation in post-1989 Czechoslovakia. By examining the role of punk and the independent press, the article highlights their significance as agents of democratic transformation following the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The work argues that punk produced alternative discourses and visions that contributed to the emergence of civil society in …
Narrating Velvet Revolution
The Velvet Revolution in 1989 Czechoslovakia marked a profound shift in the historical narratives present in this former socialist federation. In this chapter we focus on historical narratives in the realm of popular music. As state socialism collapsed, music scenes that were once marginalized flourished, reshaping cultural boundaries and contributing to a new historical discourse. This period, analysed through Walter Benjamin’s concept of ‘messi…
Fungi in popular culture reconsidered
This article challenges the enduring binary of mycophilia and mycophobia, introduced by R. Gordon Wasson in 1957, which has long framed cultural perceptions of fungi. While the dichotomy distinguishes between cultures that embrace fungi as edible and culturally meaningful, and those that regard them with suspicion or fear, it remains rooted in anthropocentric assumptions. I argue that the conceptual opposition between mycophilia and mycophobia re…
Jiří Štaif, Obezřetná elita. Česká společnost mezi tradicí a revolucí 1830–1851
Recenze
Jan Křen, Dvě století střední Evropy
Recenze
Czech Anesthesiologists on Their Way to the Netherlands
In 1970, the Third European Congress of Anaesthesiology was held in Prague. Paradoxically, many leading Czech and Slovak representatives of the field were absent, having emigrated to the West, predominantly to the Netherlands, following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. This emigration, however, did not result in Czechoslovak anaesthesiologists being entirely disconnected from their former colleagues or losing touch with the d…
Early 1990s anarchism in Slovakia
Il confine meridionale e i nostri spauracchi nazionalisti
Nel contesto delle questioni territoriali riguardanti i confini tra gli Stati, il problema delle minoranze e dell’uso pubblico della storia rappresenta un argomento estremamente attuale. Il presente saggio si propone di esaminare il caso delle relazioni slovacco-ungheresi, le questioni legate al rapporto Stato-popolazione, in particolare a partire dal trattato del Trianon del 1918, e l’installazione di monumenti e la loro rappresentazione simboli…
The politics and the music mainstream in Central and Eastern Europe
Symposium for Miroslav Hroch
Twelve historians and social scientists reflect on Miroslav Hroch's contributions to the field of nationalism studies. There are essays on his pioneering comparative historical studies of ‘small nation’ national movements and his distinction between nationalism and national movements. Other essays focus on concepts such as those of protagonist, the three phases of national movements, the small nation and nationally relevant conflict of interest. …
Years in Cultural Studies
n Eastern Europe, which is the focus of our study, different national scholarly traditions assigned their own place to the study of culture. Although the influence of the kulturologia (“culturology”) schools installed at Russian universities in the 1980s radiated out into Eastern European countries, local academic communities dictated the approach to the study of popular culture. While the Polish field of kulturoznawstwo was propelled by internal…
Self-publishing and Building Glocal Scenes
I n our special issue we would like to open the debate about the different contexts where we can find self-publishing and alternative publication strategies intended to build or maintain various scenes in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Compared to the previous issue of Forum Historiae, which was dedicated to subcultural zines, we opened the discussion for a wider spectrum of independent publishing which played a specific role in socialist and …
The political economy of fanzines on the threshold of state socialism and post-socialism
In this article, I analyse Czech and Slovak fanzine-making during the transition from state socialism to post-socialism. The regime change ushered in new dominant forms of cultural production, and thus a situation emerged in which cultural hierarchies were being negotiated and new ways of collective action being formed. Fanzines played a crucial role in building up alternative communities in the new neoliberal system, when there was strong demand…
Why Fanzines? Perspectives, Topics and Limits in Research on Central Eastern Europe
ubcultural studies have widely benefited from the study of zines, but nonethe- less zines are not an entirely common subject matter among scholars. Although our colleagues from the Archiv der Jugendkulturen have assembled a rather extensive bibliography about zines, 1 these publications remain a marginal, not well-established focus of study. Zine research, however, has made a distinctive mark on one field, the study of feminist activism, as indep…
What are the Cultural Preconditions of Universities’ Regional Engagement? Towards a Disciplinary Sensitive Model of the University–Region Interface
Outsiders or Leaders? The Role of Higher Education Institutions in the Development of Peripheral Regions
Evidence in Czech research evaluation policy
The Czech research evaluation policy was rooted in an instrumental paradigm of policy process and evidence embodied in metrics-based cost-benefit logic. But this framework disintegrated when confronted with actual institutional interests. Based on the ethnography of university departments, this study shows how academics challenged the notion of evidence for evaluation. It is argued that research policy should be studied as an arena of conflicting…
Peter Burke, Společnost a vědění. Od Gutenberga k Diderotovi
Recenze
Milan Řepa, Poetika českého dějepisectví
recenze
The political economy of fanzines on the threshold of state socialism and post-socialism
In this article, I analyse Czech and Slovak fanzine-making during the transition from state socialism to post-socialism. The regime change ushered in new dominant forms of cultural production, and thus a situation emerged in which cultural hierarchies were being negotiated and new ways of collective action being formed. Fanzines played a crucial role in building up alternative communities in the new neoliberal system, when there was strong demand…
Outsiders or Leaders? The Role of Higher Education Institutions in the Development of Peripheral Regions
Milan Řepa, Poetika českého dějepisectví
recenze
Peter Burke, Společnost a vědění. Od Gutenberga k Diderotovi
Recenze
Evidence in Czech research evaluation policy
The Czech research evaluation policy was rooted in an instrumental paradigm of policy process and evidence embodied in metrics-based cost-benefit logic. But this framework disintegrated when confronted with actual institutional interests. Based on the ethnography of university departments, this study shows how academics challenged the notion of evidence for evaluation. It is argued that research policy should be studied as an arena of conflicting…
What are the Cultural Preconditions of Universities’ Regional Engagement? Towards a Disciplinary Sensitive Model of the University–Region Interface
Outsiders or Leaders? The Role of Higher Education Institutions in the Development of Peripheral Regions
Why Fanzines? Perspectives, Topics and Limits in Research on Central Eastern Europe
ubcultural studies have widely benefited from the study of zines, but nonethe- less zines are not an entirely common subject matter among scholars. Although our colleagues from the Archiv der Jugendkulturen have assembled a rather extensive bibliography about zines, 1 these publications remain a marginal, not well-established focus of study. Zine research, however, has made a distinctive mark on one field, the study of feminist activism, as indep…
Years in Cultural Studies
n Eastern Europe, which is the focus of our study, different national scholarly traditions assigned their own place to the study of culture. Although the influence of the kulturologia (“culturology”) schools installed at Russian universities in the 1980s radiated out into Eastern European countries, local academic communities dictated the approach to the study of popular culture. While the Polish field of kulturoznawstwo was propelled by internal…
Self-publishing and Building Glocal Scenes
I n our special issue we would like to open the debate about the different contexts where we can find self-publishing and alternative publication strategies intended to build or maintain various scenes in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Compared to the previous issue of Forum Historiae, which was dedicated to subcultural zines, we opened the discussion for a wider spectrum of independent publishing which played a specific role in socialist and …
The political economy of fanzines on the threshold of state socialism and post-socialism
In this article, I analyse Czech and Slovak fanzine-making during the transition from state socialism to post-socialism. The regime change ushered in new dominant forms of cultural production, and thus a situation emerged in which cultural hierarchies were being negotiated and new ways of collective action being formed. Fanzines played a crucial role in building up alternative communities in the new neoliberal system, when there was strong demand…
Il confine meridionale e i nostri spauracchi nazionalisti
Nel contesto delle questioni territoriali riguardanti i confini tra gli Stati, il problema delle minoranze e dell’uso pubblico della storia rappresenta un argomento estremamente attuale. Il presente saggio si propone di esaminare il caso delle relazioni slovacco-ungheresi, le questioni legate al rapporto Stato-popolazione, in particolare a partire dal trattato del Trianon del 1918, e l’installazione di monumenti e la loro rappresentazione simboli…
The politics and the music mainstream in Central and Eastern Europe
Symposium for Miroslav Hroch
Twelve historians and social scientists reflect on Miroslav Hroch's contributions to the field of nationalism studies. There are essays on his pioneering comparative historical studies of ‘small nation’ national movements and his distinction between nationalism and national movements. Other essays focus on concepts such as those of protagonist, the three phases of national movements, the small nation and nationally relevant conflict of interest. …
Czech Anesthesiologists on Their Way to the Netherlands
In 1970, the Third European Congress of Anaesthesiology was held in Prague. Paradoxically, many leading Czech and Slovak representatives of the field were absent, having emigrated to the West, predominantly to the Netherlands, following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. This emigration, however, did not result in Czechoslovak anaesthesiologists being entirely disconnected from their former colleagues or losing touch with the d…
Early 1990s anarchism in Slovakia
Jiří Štaif, Obezřetná elita. Česká společnost mezi tradicí a revolucí 1830–1851
Recenze
Jan Křen, Dvě století střední Evropy
Recenze
Narrating Velvet Revolution
The Velvet Revolution in 1989 Czechoslovakia marked a profound shift in the historical narratives present in this former socialist federation. In this chapter we focus on historical narratives in the realm of popular music. As state socialism collapsed, music scenes that were once marginalized flourished, reshaping cultural boundaries and contributing to a new historical discourse. This period, analysed through Walter Benjamin’s concept of ‘messi…
Fungi in popular culture reconsidered
This article challenges the enduring binary of mycophilia and mycophobia, introduced by R. Gordon Wasson in 1957, which has long framed cultural perceptions of fungi. While the dichotomy distinguishes between cultures that embrace fungi as edible and culturally meaningful, and those that regard them with suspicion or fear, it remains rooted in anthropocentric assumptions. I argue that the conceptual opposition between mycophilia and mycophobia re…
Completing the Velvet Revolution? Czech and Slovak Punk Zines and the Legacy of Cultural Opposition after 1989
This article explores the role of punk subculture and the independent punk press in shaping democratic transformation in post-1989 Czechoslovakia. By examining the role of punk and the independent press, the article highlights their significance as agents of democratic transformation following the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The work argues that punk produced alternative discourses and visions that contributed to the emergence of civil society in …
Political science (11 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Czech (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)