„Já si je najdu, ty vole. Dyť máme furt stejný místa.“ Místa bezdomovců ve veřejném 












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            “I’ll find you, man. ’Cuz we still have the same spots.” The Places of the Homeless in the


            Abstrakt
            The aim of this article is to interpret the construction of “homeless places” within the p

            Drawing from the concepts of practice and of narration of places, from my long-term ethnog
            in a Czech mid-sized city, from semi-structured interviews with institutional actors, and 
            analysis of media messages and other materials, I describe the representations of “homeles

            institutional actors (politicians, municipal policemen, etc.). Further, I reinterpret the 
            of these representations from the perspective of ethnographic data and present a categoriz

            through which the homeless differentiate and practice places in the public space. The main
            structuring the representations produced by institutional actors and by media messages con
            begging”, public alcohol drinking and aggression (associated with criminality). However, t

            leading to these practices are greatly under-represented. Alcohol consumption represents a
            of solidarity mechanisms, establishing the boundaries of a particular homeless group and a
            survival. Aggression, as a marginal practice, may be viewed partly as serving the function

            these solidarity mechanisms, and partly as a result of the frequent “cabin fevers” and of 
            rituals”. The so-called “coercive begging” is also a rather marginal practice, performed b
            begging specialists”. In the final section of the article, I describe examples of “homeles

            on 11 categories (dimensions of contrast), with a special focus on the communal activities
            places, on the interplay between the practices of the homeless and of the physical attribu
            and on the maintenance of these places in everyday narratives and interactions. In this re

            part of public space can designate two very different places, depending on the actors who 
            the institutional actors and the media versus the homeless).


            Klíčová slova
            homelessness; public space; construction of place; practices; narratives


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