Urban or Family-Friendly? The Presentation of Czech Shopping Centers as Family-Friendly Spaces

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1206331216646059" target="_blank" >http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1206331216646059</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331216646059" target="_blank" >10.1177/1206331216646059</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Urban or Family-Friendly? The Presentation of Czech Shopping Centers as Family-Friendly Spaces

Original language description

This article presents a study of the self-presentation of shopping centers in the Czech Republic as “family-friendly” spaces. The notion of family-friendliness is analyzed both as a structural category, referring to the structure of the stereotypical normal family and to its respective members, and as a cultural representation, referring to “family values,” which Czech malls invoke in their self-presentation. It is argued that the presentation of a “space for the whole family” covers only the persistent stereotype of female-led economic consumption. The family values of safety and comfort distinguish shopping centers negatively from the city centers. They also strongly refer to the country’s past by invoking the image of a family promenade. On a more general level, the family appeal thrives on the phenomenon of postsocialist privatism and on the turning away from the public sphere in favor of the private realm of the family.

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

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GP14-32200P" target="_blank" >GP14-32200P: Incvivility in urban public space</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

Name of the periodical

Space and Culture

ISSN

1206-3312

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

68-80

UT code for WoS article

000391796400005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85032069832