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Placing capital(s): everyday social transformations of transnational elites in Prague, Czech Republic
Author(s) -
Cook Andrew C G
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2010.00982.x
Subject(s) - social capital , everyday life , sociology , czech , cultural capital , capital (architecture) , social reproduction , gender studies , capital city , social science , political science , economic geography , history , geography , law , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology
This paper serves to offer an exploration of the everyday geographies of transnational elites (TNEs) living and working in Prague, Czech Republic. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu regarding the existence of multiple forms of capital, the author suggests that by reconsidering the role of place in understandings of cultural capital, and the links and interactions between social and cultural capital, original insights concerning the everyday lives of spatially dislocated individuals can be arrived at. Through a combination of in‐depth interviews and secondary data, the spatio‐temporal development of everyday social practices is investigated, paying particular attention to the interactions and social groups that TNEs are embroiled within. The qualitative analysis is embedded within a discussion of the economic and social changes that have occurred in Prague since 1993 in order that the historical specificities relevant to the growth of a significant TNE community in Prague are appreciated.