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2. Diskurzívna (de)konštrukcia kolektívnej identity: súperiace obrazy "Rómov"

Creator:
Mikuš, Marek
Format:
print
Type:
model:internalpart and TEXT
Subject:
anthropology of science, collective identity, discourse analysis, identity politics, Romani, social exclusion, and social policy
Language:
Czech
Description:
This interdisciplinary work explores current controversy over the collective identity of Romani and reasons for their social predicament. The first position, associated with Romani studies and identity politics, sees all Romani as a part of an ‘ethnic group’, and connects their plight to ‘racial’ discrimination and intolerance. Some anthropologists and social policy-makers call this ‘primordialism’ and deconstruct the notion of a unitary and natural ‘Romani nation’, maintaining most ghetto inhabitants are only classified as ‘Romani’ and their identity derives from their ‘sociál exclusion’. Matching policies are advocated. The author combines contemporary anthropological approaches to the identity construction with theories of discourse to conceptualize the debate, completing the framework with self-reflection of social science. The method of Critical Discourse Analysis is applied in examining corpora of academic and specialized writing, policy papers and media texts for the discourse construction of identity. Arguing that both discourses are differentiated instantiations of the same diagram of power normalizing ‘troublesome’ subjectivities, the author touches upon the ethical responsibility of scientists deconstructing essentialist representations of identities and circulating their ovm constructs instead.
Rights:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ and policy:public

3. Housing finance in the aftermath of the foreign-currency mortgage crisis in Eastern Europe: editorial

Creator:
Gagyi, Agnes and Mikuš, Marek
Format:
počítač and online zdroj
Type:
model:article and TEXT
Subject:
debt crisis, debt management, Eastern Europe, foreign-currency lending, and housing finance
Language:
English
Description:
This special issue expands on the existing research on foreign-currency lending and the forex loan crisis in Eastern Europe by investigating other forms of housing-related finance and post-crisis developments. Bringing together hitherto disparate strands of research, our issue traces the linkages between macroeconomic developments, state measures, class dynamics, and social movements in the aftermath of the forex loan crises in Latvia, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Hungary as part of their long-term trajectories of housing finance. We find that despite different political-institutional articulations, these trajectories all feature a new expansion of lending based on a bifurcation of the credit market into more secure, often subsidised mortgage lending aimed at better-off debtors and more risky non-mortgage loans used for housing purposes by more precarious households.
Rights:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ and policy:public

4. Whither peripheral financialisation? Housing finance in Croatia since the global financial crisis

Creator:
Mikuš, Marek
Format:
počítač and online zdroj
Type:
model:article and TEXT
Subject:
Croatia, Eastern Europe, household debt, housing finance, and peripheral financialisation
Language:
English
Description:
This article analyses recent developments in Croatian housing finance to update the established account of housing finance and peripheral financialisation in Eastern Europe that is based on the boom-bust cycle of the 2000s and early-to-mid 2010s. During the bust stage of that cycle, changes in regulation and in the behaviour of debtors and creditors resulted in deleveraging and a shift away from the risky and exploitative lending practices characteristic of peripheral housing finance. However, new increases in household debt and housing prices since 2016–17, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, seem to have reversed these trends. While a boom-bust cycle of similar scope and modality to the first one is unlikely to be repeated, peripheral forms of housing finance have persisted to some degree.
Rights:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ and policy:public