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.

CESCAME@cescame.bsky.social · last yr.

🌍 New article alert in Antipode, co-authored by members of CESCAME! How can thinking from and with the Global East enrich postcapitalist scholarship and political imagination? A thread 👇

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...

Urban newcomers as candidates in rural municipal elections: Explorations in the political dimension of lifestyle migration

The lived experience and the transformative effects of urban-to-rural lifestyle migration are key research interests of rural studies, but we know lit…

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🌍 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

Maike Melles@maikemelles.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking forward to the upcoming lecture of the DEA Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series: 'Food Waste as the Fallout of Everyday Practices' by @mattwtsn.bsky.social (University of Sheffield, UK) 🥦🍞🚮 Join us on Wednesday, 4 June, at 14:00 (CET) in Prague or online: 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...

Garden time and market time: Finding seasonality in diverse food economies

This paper combines two fast-developing perspectives on food provision: diverse economies and temporality. Building on an in-depth study of urban gard…

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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/...

Do green fingers munch on more fruit and veggies? Health effects of home gardening

Inadequate consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables is a persistent problem in many highly urbanized Global North countries. The research suggests that the intake of fresh fruits and vegetables is ...

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🔹 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: