Quasi-household economy: Rethinking homelessness in post-socialist Pilsen and beyond

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104190" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.cities.2023.104190</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Quasi-household economy: Rethinking homelessness in post-socialist Pilsen and beyond
Original language description
The paper repositions homelessness in existing cities by highlighting the importance of transformative economic agency. Relying on a combination of long-term ethnographic research in the city of Pilsen, a traditional industrial second-order city in Czechia, and political-economic analysis, this paper introduces the concept of the quasihousehold economy (QHE). This economy connects the informal and formal spheres and involves not only 'homeless' people but also some classes of housed people. The paper further argues that the QHE is held together by the politics of the 'same boat,' a particular way of creating social relations on the street. Thus, the QHE not only plays a crucial affirmative role in the market economy but also has the capability to transform some aspects of the locally enacted global economy. The paper concludes that Czech homelessness, while being a corollary of macro-level processes of integration into the global economy and local policy making, is also being made and re-made in everyday (in)formal socio-economic exchanges. This has important practical and theoretical implica-tions for public policy and urban research.
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
50702 - Urban studies (planning and development)

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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