A new Antipode article in which the Polička Collective advances arguments about the Global East being a (long-neglected) source of important theoretical insights for the Diverse and Community Economies scholarship.

My paper on the political participation of urban newcomers in rural peripheries has now been published in the Journal of Rural Studies. It seeks to advance the debate on the political dimension of urban-to-rural migration and highlights municipalist strategies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌍 Next week, Matt Watson (University of Sheffield, UK), the fourth speaker in the DEA's 2025 Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series, will be talking about 'Food Waste as the Fallout of Everyday Practices'. 🚮 To join us in Prague or online, register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2

Project's focus encouraged us to step out of the comfort zone of social geography and walk into the public health field. Very interesting experience but not an easy one😄 Hopefully, we've provided new and robust insight into the #gardening, #food and #publichealth studies.

Brief summary👇 👍Gardeners eat fruit and vegetables more often and have lower #BMI even if the effect of sociodemographics is controlled. 🤔However, the relationship between gardening, consumption and health is not straightforward.

🫑🍑🥒🍓L. Sovová’s and my paper brings temporality to the diverse economies scholarship, arguing that "the cyclical, natural time of gardening seasons determines the social rhythm of food provisioning in a contemporary urban context". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share new paper just published📢 Do #gardeners eat more fresh #fruit and #vegetables than nongardeners? Are they healthier?🥕🍏🍓 With @petrjehlicka.bsky.social & M. Ohno. @sociologicky.bsky.social @unikarlova.cuni.cz & Institut SYRI acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🔹 Workshop: Benedikt Schmid in dialogue with CESCAME 🔹 We’re excited to host Benedikt Schmid at the Institute of Sociology, Prague! 🚀 Join us for an engaging talk on community sustainability transitions. 📍 Prague + Online 📅 Details & registration: cescame.soc.cas.cz/events/works...

❓Jak zapojit veřejnost do rozhodování o nových projektech v obcích? Členové a členky týmu CESCAME se aktivně zapojují do veřejných diskuzí na aktuální témata! Jednou z těchto akcí byl online seminář od Agora Central Europe na téma NIMBY efektu (Not In My Backyard).👇

Petr Daněk and my OA analysis of food self-provisioning based on 800 respondents in Czechia and 500 in Austria is out in Erdkunde: time in the garden, motivations for growing food, volume of production, extent of food sharing, fertiliser and pesticide use... www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view...

Looking forward to my talk "On moral grounds: Revisiting acorn theft in 20th-century Spain" 🌰🇪🇦 at the seminar hosted by the Inst of Ethnology Prague, online + in Brno, on Monday 2 Dec, 2 pm CET, with Susanne Fehlings (Frobenius Institute and GU Frankfurt) as discussant. Info and link to join online: