Urban Social Problems and Marginalized Populations in Postsocialist Transition Societies: Perceptions of the City Center of Prague, the Czechia

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1078087415620304" target="_blank" >http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1078087415620304</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087415620304" target="_blank" >10.1177/1078087415620304</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Urban Social Problems and Marginalized Populations in Postsocialist Transition Societies: Perceptions of the City Center of Prague, the Czechia
Original language description
Despite growing scholarly interest in residential segregation in Central and Eastern Europe, thus far insufficient attention has been paid to understanding marginalization in these postsocialist transition societies through the perceptions of stakeholders. The present article reports the findings of a qualitative study of the perceptions of urban social problems in the city center of Prague, Czechia. Semistructured interviews with the key actors involved in the city's social development are used to understand what social phenomena they perceive as problematic, how they localize them within the urban space, and how their perceptions translate into policy attitudes. We find that stakeholders emphasize the issues of homelessness, drug addiction, and the appropriate delivery of social services in their narratives. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the repressive nature of policy interventions partly results from a lack of experience of overcoming such societal issues and partly results from weak coordination at the city level.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA14-00393S" target="_blank" >GA14-00393S: Dynamics of social environment and spatial mobility in metropolitan regions of the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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