The pace of “the good life”: Connecting past, present, and future in the context of a housing affordability crisis

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0322541" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0322541</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961463X20987814" target="_blank" >10.1177/0961463X20987814</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The pace of “the good life”: Connecting past, present, and future in the context of a housing affordability crisis

Original language description

This article focuses on the topic of the young adult’s cleft habitus influenced by a housing affordability crisis in the Czech Republic and examines how this situation affects the young adult’s relation to the imagination of a temporally structured life course and synchronization of life spheres (housing, family, and work). This article is based on qualitative in-depth interviews conducted in the four cities most affected by the house and rent price increase. The general question addresses if and how social inequalities, sharpened by the current housing affordability crisis, affect the process of narrative life course coherence creation (the connection of past, present, and future) in relation to an orientation toward a vision of “the good life.” We furthermore complement the already existing ideal types of the young adult’s relation toward time—confident continuity and cautious contingency—with two other two types—cautious continuity and total contingency—defined on the basis of our data. We argue that the ability of young adults to envision a coherent future is related to the feeling of secured housing and that the idea of the good life is depicted to a large extent through the ideal of homeownership, although the precarity of the housing market makes homeownership harder to reach for those from unprivileged backgrounds.

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/GA19-07402S" target="_blank" >GA19-07402S: Housing Careers of Millennials: Increasing Tension between Homeownership Normalization and Urban Housing Affordability Crisis in CR</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Time & Society

ISSN

0961-463X

e-ISSN

1461-7463

Volume of the periodical

30

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

198-222

UT code for WoS article

000618463900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85100558179