Mgr. Michal Lehečka, Ph.D. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************************** * Research Areas ****************************************************************************************** Michal Lehečka is a social anthropologist. His main scientific interests lie in the areas anthropology, ethnographic methods of inquiry and applied/engaged research (Anthropictures NGO’s). Within his academic and applied research he deals with various urban phenomena: community housing policies,  displacement and gentrification, urban movements, migration, segregatio issue of modernist housing estates in CEE countries (topic of his dissertation thesis). Currently, he focuses on urban planning policies within the contexts of global flows and t conceptions of production of space. In 2018 he established a Laboratory of Sustainable Urbanism under AutoMat NGO, based in Pr transdisciplinary workspace focusing on the issues of social urbanism and sustainable mobi Since 2021 he is a vice-president of Czech Association for Social Anthropology (board memb • Urban Anthropology • Applied and Engaged Anthropology • Anthropology of Space • Development Anthropology • Qualitative Research Methodology • Urban Studies • Gentrification and Displacement • Urban Segregation and Migration • Modernist Housing Estates ****************************************************************************************** * Courses ****************************************************************************************** See SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/predmety/index.php? id=b277bb456dcdc04ade81b6ea6341fa75&tid=1&do=ucit&kod=46549"] . ****************************************************************************************** * Contact Information and Office Hours ****************************************************************************************** See SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/kdojekdo/index.php? id=b277bb456dcdc04ade81b6ea6341fa75&tid=1&do=detailuc&kuc=46549"] . ****************************************************************************************** * Education ****************************************************************************************** • 2021: PhD. in Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University • 2013: M. A. in General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University • 2010: B. A., in Liberal Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University ****************************************************************************************** * Employment ****************************************************************************************** • 2022: lecturer at University of New York in Prague (Cultural Anthropology) • 2021 – 2022: external lecturer, Institute of Sociological Studies, Faculty of Social Sci University. • 2019 – 2021: researcher, project Cultural Capital: Legitimization mechanisms and reprodu cultural hierarchies (Czech Science Foundation). • 2018 – 2022: head of Laboratory of Sustainable Urbanism (AutoMat NGO) • 2014 – 2019: external lecturer, Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanitie University. • 2014 – 2018: applied researcher/ethnographer, Anthropictures NGO ****************************************************************************************** * Other experiences ****************************************************************************************** • 2019 – 2022: head coordinator, Městem film festival: Urbanism and Mobility • 2018: curator, exhibition Arrival City Prague: Southwest City in cooperation with Goethe and Deutsches Architektrumuseum • 2017: research internship, Laboratory of Critical Urbanism, European Humanities Universi and Vilnius • 2014 – 2022: External consultant in urban planning, participatory development and social and municipal institutions, local authorities, private sector)       ****************************************************************************************** * Research ****************************************************************************************** • 2019 – 2021: Grant project, Kulturní kapitál: legitimizační mechanismy a reprodukce kult hierarchií (Czech Science Foundation GAČR 19-12372S, principal researcher Dr. Ondřej Špa • 2018: Arrival City Prague: Southwest City. Ethnographic research and exhibition (donor: Prague). • 2017: researcher, grant project „Urban Processes in Contemporary City“, SVV 260 470, Glo a jeho místa. • 2016: principal researcher, Migration and Dangerous Speech. Beyond Zero NGO (USA). Appli of migration narratives in Czech Republic. • 2014 – 2016: researcher, (Do) We Know Each Other. Participatory Community Development. N Applied research in Modernist Housing Estate. • 2014: principal researcher, Monitoring of Communities in Pilsen. Pilsen 2015 European Ca Culture. Applied urban research. ****************************************************************************************** * Selected Publications ****************************************************************************************** Lehečka, M., Nessler, M., Liubimau, S. (2021) „When Private and Public React Together. Reg Privatization and their Consequences in Visaginas.“ Pp. 82-98 in Re-Tooling the Knowledge in Nuclear Town edited by Siarhei Liubimau and Benjamin Cope. Vilnius: EHU. Hoření Samec, T., Lehečka, M. (eds.). (2020) Pražská panelová sídliště jako místa protikla Sociologický ústav AV. Lehečka, M. (2019b) “To Own or Not to Own. Post-socialist Housing Policy, Privatism and Re Vulnerability in Prague, Czech Republic.” Archivio Anthropologico Mediterraneo 21 (2). Ava https://journals.openedition.org/aam/2228 [ URL "https://journals.openedition.org/aam/2228 Heřmanová, M. and Lehečka M. (2019). Arrival City. Invisible diversity at Prague’s Housing Informationen zur Raumentwicklung 2/2019, pp. 58-67. Lehečka, M. (2019a). Pocity Plotu: Teritoriální (re)produkce, normativita a ne/viditelnost prostoru panelového sídliště. Sociální Studia 16 (1), pp. 57-77. Lehečka, M. (2018). “Veřejný prostor panelových sídlišť: Kolektivismus, privatismus a part Veřejný prostor v ohrožení? Aktuální problémy městského veřejného prostoru z hlediska spol disciplín, edited by Petr Kratochvíl, 93-104. Praha: Artefactum. Lehečka, M. (2017). Micro-regional Hybridity. On (un)sustainability of the Urban/Rural Dic People/Lidé Města 19 (2), pp. 285-295. Lehečka, M. (2015a). “Když nám tam chtěl někdo hrát cizí, tak jsme ho třeba vykamenovali”: zkušenosti vyrůstání na sídlišti. Biograf 61, pp. 35-62. Lehečka, M. (2015b). Odrazy sídliště. Ethnographic movie document exploring everyday life housing estate of Stodůlky in Prague. http://mystreetfilms.cz/video/odrazy-sidliste [ URL mystreetfilms.cz/video/odrazy-sidliste"] Lehečka, M. (2013). Sídliště současné a minulé: Proměny pražského sídliště Stodůlky očima Slovenský národopis 61 (4), pp. 351-367.