Public Libraries as a Space for the Civic Initiation of Hard-to- reach Groups in the Czech Republic

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RIV/00216208:11230/16:10330710

Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Public Libraries as a Space for the Civic Initiation of Hard-to- reach Groups in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The Czech Republic is currently facing major internal challenges, notably problems with social exclusion and an increasing disparity between large cities and rural areas. According to The Analysis of Socially Excluded Regions in the Czech Republic (Čada 2015), the proportion of persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the country is approximately 14.6 percent. The scale of this exclusion poses a threat to social cohesion within Czech society, dividing the majority of society, which benefits from a lifestyle based on employment and consumption related to income, from the excluded minority. This is also reflected by the increasing polarisation of the social and economic interests of the two sections of Czech society, which are currently rapidly drifting apart. Extremist sentiments are rising and gaining public support in excluded regions, as social exclusion translates into an undermining of the democratic cohesion of both Czech society and the democratic system. When broadly defined, social exclusion might be seen to affect a range of groups across society. These include people on the 'breadline', the working poor and the unemployed, as well as members of different ethnic groups and other minorities. The list also often includes the abandoned, disadvantaged or handicapped, as well as homeless people and people with addictions. Here we understand, the notion of 'to be excluded' to refer to those unable to fully participate in political, social, economic and cultural life in the place and country in which they live. In other words, social cohesion does not result from mere civil, spatial or territorial belonging; it is primarily determined by participation in social and economic dynamics and public governance. In this chapter we focus on public libraries and their civic educational activities for hard-to-reach citizens who are the risk of social exclusion.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-10163S" target="_blank" >GA16-10163S: Activism in Hard Times and the Image of the "Other"</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Beyond Us versus Them. Citizenship Education with Hard to Reach learners in Europe

ISBN

978-3-8389-0618-8

Number of pages of the result

25

Pages from-to

67-91

Number of pages of the book

335

Publisher name

Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

Place of publication

Bonn

UT code for WoS chapter

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