Residential preferences in the context of voluntary simple lifestyles: What motivates contemporary Czech simplifiers to reside in the countryside?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F16%3A00088267" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/16:00088267 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2016-0035" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2016-0035</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2016-0035" target="_blank" >10.1515/humaff-2016-0035</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Residential preferences in the context of voluntary simple lifestyles: What motivates contemporary Czech simplifiers to reside in the countryside?

Original language description

The aim of our paper is to broaden the international discussion on environmentally friendly lifestyles. In most of the previous research, via a survey technique involving the self-nomination of participants, voluntary simplifiers are presented as part of a social movement typically connected with an urban environment. Our paper follows the third wave of longitudinal research conducted in the post-socialist Czech Republic in the years 1992, 2002 and 2015. The data were collected using in-depth interviews combined with observations in 20 voluntary modest households. The biographical style of interview enables us to interpret the sources of the participants’ motivation for relocating to the countryside or staying in the urban environment as they interpret it retrospectively. Four dominant narratives emerged: 1) narrative of distaste for city life, 2) narrative of a nice life, 3) narrative about living in freedom, 4) narrative of a return to roots.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50402 - Demography

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-05552S" target="_blank" >GA15-05552S: Environmentally-Friendly Lifestyle in the March of Time</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

Name of the periodical

Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly

ISSN

1210-3055

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

410-421

UT code for WoS article

000399485900005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84994056194