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            * Announced in 2020
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            Applicants can apply for positions in projects announced by the following departments in 2


            1) Creating Urban Identities: Where Socialist Heritage Meets the Present


            Since the fall of state-socialism in 1989, the fervent socio-political, economic, and cult
            transformation defined the creation of new urban identities in the former Eastern Bloc. On
            socialist lands nowadays stand key factors in the scholarly study of twentieth- and twenty

            events. However, while architectural historians study the Cold War architecture, and resea
            sociology and anthropology inquire into the present-day creation of identities and space, 

            the two periods, as well as an inquiry into contemporary urban negotiations of the state-s
            remain understudied and call for further examination.


            To remedy this gap, Creating Urban Identities will inquire into the debates on state-socia
            the Czech Republic, with a particular focus on the creation of post-socialist identities a
            socio-political and cultural heritage. Specifically, this project will probe into the conv

            from socialist to capitalist and will inspect the creation of new urban identities in the 
            economic and political restructuring. Creating Urban Identities will seek to identify acto
            of post-socialist societal shift—citizens, politicians, architects, and intellectuals—in a

            connect the individual to whole, and vice versa. Finally, to weave the bonds between the p
            this project will examine the role of collective memory and processes of memorialisation t
            problematic and agency of contemporary users of socialist urban heritage.


            To conduct the analysis of the relationship between the state, its cities, and their peopl
            to examine the arising social and cultural pluralities unfolding in post-socialist spaces,

            will utilize transdisciplinary methodologies and will use theories from the fields of arch
            and anthropology, sociology, and political science. Creating Urban Identities will study t
            scholarship, archival materials, newspapers and journals, and will entail an extensive ora

            component and case-studies. The value of this project stands paramount in the contemporary
            cultural moment: in the era of rising nationalism, an analysis of state-socialist heritage
            present-day urban transformations expands the understanding of societal processes and thei

            with the ever-present past.



            Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
            Department: Department of Historical Sociology
            Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Jiří Šubrt, CSc.

            E-mail: jiri.subrt(zavinac)fhs.cuni.cz [ MAIL "jiri.subrt(zavinac)fhs.cuni.cz"]
            Phone: + 420 251 620 356
            Deadline date: July 22, 2020

            Position available from: January 1, 2021

            Submit applications with all other documents to Research Administration Office:

            jan.belonoznik(zavinac)fhs.cuni.cz [ MAIL "jan.belonoznik(zavinac)fhs.cuni.cz"]