Èeský lid : Ethnological Journal – Call for Articles

Special issue: Everyday urban life in the socialist era in Central and Eastern Europe

Research on everyday life has had a strong position in social and historical sciences since the 1960s. Studies of urban environment focus mainly on the everyday routines, the practices and actions of individuals and groups, and their role in the reproduction of the meanings of urban space. It allows us to explore meanings attached to the multidimensional urban environment at different levels of interpretation: private or personal points of view of individuals and groups may differ from public or official interpretations. The aim of the planned issue of the Èeský lid is to explore the everyday life of inhabitants of cities and towns within the context of the former socialist system, which influenced the everyday practices of people in a specific way. Its political, economic and socio-cultural…