Anja Decker

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…

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...

How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage* When social and spatial disadvantages meet, are they doubled? Empirical studies have convincingly demonstrated that disadvantages tend to accumulate. Our paper advances this scholarship by focusing o....

(How) does spatial and social disadvantage intersect? An how do single mothers in rural peripheries enact their agency? - In our new OA paper published in Rural Sociology we provide insights from Czechia and Germany onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Deadline 20.1. btw

EUGEO Sessions Find out more about the Sessions held at EUGEO 2025

CfP: In the name of Polička Collective I invite you to submit a paper to our panel “Transformative world visions from the Global East? (Post)socialist inspirations for resilience and good life” at the EUGEO conference 8-11 Sept 2025 in Vienna. Full call here: www.eugeo2025.eu/eugeo-2025-s...

In this report, @cescame.bsky.social researcher Petr Vašát looks back at our autumn conference on “Micro-practices of societal transformation?”.

Home Deadline for abstract submission: 31 December, 2024Conference Dates: 19 - 23 May, 2025 This is the third edition of the ‘Capitalist Transformations’ conference, an academic event that aims to create a...

Don´t miss out on the third international conference on 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞
whicht celebrates the work of Karl Polanyi and György Lukács and aims to create a much needes space for discussion on changes in the region

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The space behind the garden - Inconspicuous land-related care in Czechia Anja Decker takes a close look at several examples of informal interventions in the material and organic environment she encountered during fieldwork in rural and suburban Czechia. Walking with her in...

This is a glimpse into my current fieldwork on informal environmental care and human-plant relations.

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