Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(5)
Articles
‘People Are Dying, and They Will Be Dying’: Drought Stories, Cultural Codes and Environmental Discourses
Karel Čada
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(5): 487-512 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.016 
This article focuses on narratives of drought in Czech media discourses. Proceeding from the perspective of cultural sociology, it describes drought as a complex cultural field and a collective representation that has given rise to new forms of civic responsibility and subjectivity and a rich tableau of new uncertainties and risks. Based on an analysis of 4632 articles published in the most widely read Czech newspapers (Lidové noviny, Hospodářské noviny, MF Dnes, Právo, Blesk) between 2014 and 2018, the article identifies the key media images of drought and relates them to broader environmental discourses and cultural risk patterns. The main thesis...
Perception of the Connection between the COVID-19 Pandemic and Climate Change in the Czech Blogosphere
Daniel Čermák, Jana Stachová, Matouš Pilnáček
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(5): 513-534 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2022.038
The article is dedicated to reflecting the links between the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in the context of Czech social media, specifically on several blogging platforms. The processes leading to the climate and pandemic crises are highly intertwined, based in the way humans interact with the environment on a global scale. However, the circumstances and consequences of both crises, as well as the ways they are dealt with, also share common features. The authors identify such contexts as reflected on blogging platforms by undertaking a qualitative analysis of texts from an interpretative phenomenological perspective. Climate scepticism...
‘I Can Make Warnings about All Kinds of Statistically Possible Climate Extremes, but Who'll Warn Me about Me?’: Elements of Climate Scepticism in the Expert Presentation of Climate Change in the Media
Renáta Mikešová
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(5): 535-552 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.031
The Czech Republic is among the countries in Europe with a relatively more sceptical view of climate change, especially when it comes to opinions about human responsibility for climate change and the need for individual measures to mitigate its impacts. This article focuses on a relatively less noticed aspect of climate-sceptic opinions in the presentation of this issue in the Czech media, namely doubts about the scientific knowledge on climate change expressed by scientists themselves. It is based on two basic observations. First, scientists and experts play a key role in the presentation of climate change. Second, highlighting the inconsistency of...
Book reviews
Petr Gibas a kol.: Bydlení mladých v době krize
Hana Řičicová
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(5): 553-555 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.051
Martin Potůček: Anatomie komunismu: Skutečný příběh jedné rodiny
Lucie Rektorová
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(5): 555-559 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.052
Michal Kaplánek (ed.): Volný čas dětí staršího školního věku
Zuzana Velenská
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(5): 559-564 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.050