Jitka Králová
Jitka Králová
Research profile
Jitka Králová is a PhD candidate based at UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies. She obtained her master’s degree in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. In her doctoral research she focuses on the interplay of personal indebtedness and politics in the context of one of the Czech deindustrializing regions (Ústecký kraj). Her broader research interests include the study of capitalism, social and economic justice and (in)equality, and far-right political mobilisation, particularly in the post-socialist contexts.
Jitka worked as an ethnographer on POPREBEL a large Horizon2020 project. As part of her role, she analysed the changing political attitudes and the emergence of populist movements during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Czech online spaces. She currently collaborates as a PhD fellow on the MEMPOP project, which investiagates the everyday mnemonic practices and populist sentiments in the Central Eastern European borderland regions.
Research output
2022 Davidov, V., Kubik, J., Cottica, A., Góralska, M., Kocian, J., Králová, J., Mole, R., Rivera-Cardona, S., Sauerborn, D., Sloboda, Z., & Szymański, W. (2022). A large-scale ethnography of populism in the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7494327
Jul 2024 Deindustrialization, personal debt and political disillusionment, EASA 2024, Barcelona Spain
Apr 2024 The online mobilisation in times of the COVID-19 pandemic – prospect for populist solidarity?, BASEES 2024, Cambridge UK
Jun 2023 Between Debt and Democracy: Over-Indebtedness and Contestation in Czech Deindustrialized Regions, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle Germany
Jun 2023 “Precarious living in ‘cardboard states’” An introduction to the dynamics of the growing popularity of populist movements in CEE, 2022 ASEEES Annual Convention, Chicago USA
May 2022 UCL SSEES Foundation Scholarship (£15,000 - 3 years) awarded to academically excellent applicants applying to study a full time PhD research programme within University College London’s (UCL) School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES).
September 2021 Research prize (£430) awarded by Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, following my selection to participate in the Inspiration Forum LAB’s interdisciplinary project.
June 2017 Undergraduate Research Award (£600) from SOAS, University of London Awarded a grant to conduct ethnographic fieldwork for my undergraduate thesis.
