prof. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ph.D.

office: 3.66
Joštova 218/10
602 00 Brno

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Projects

Society in times of crisis: The digital reorganisation of social practices (MUNI/A/1698/2024)

MU Researcher:	doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D.
MU Faculty or unit:	Faculty of Social Studies
Project Period:	1/2025 — 12/2025
Investor:	Masaryk University / Specific research - support for student projects

Human Societies: Past, Present, Future (MUNI/CORE/0384/2024)

MU Researcher:	Dr. Werner Binder
MU Faculty or unit:	Faculty of Social Studies
Project Period:	7/2024 — 6/2025
Investor:	Masaryk University / Společný univerzitní základ

People Like Us? A Reverse Sociology of Migration in Czechia (GA23-05449S)

MU Researcher:	prof. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ph.D.
MU Faculty or unit:	Faculty of Social Studies
Project Period:	1/2023 — 12/2025
Investor:	Czech Science Foundation / Standard Projects

Society in times of crisis: The legitimacy crisis of contemporary sciences (MUNI/A/1593/2023)

MU Researcher:	doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D.
MU Faculty or unit:	Faculty of Social Studies
Project Period:	1/2024 — 12/2024
Investor:	Masaryk University / Specific research - support for student projects

Innovating the cultural sociology classroom through simulation-based learning (MUNI/IVV/0664/2023)

MU Researcher:	doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D.
MU Faculty or unit:	Faculty of Social Studies
Project Period:	7/2023 — 6/2024
Investor:	Masaryk University / Innovations in teaching

Society in times of crisis: Anthropocene violence and its contemporary societal relevance (MUNI/A/1474/2022)

MU Researcher:	doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D.
MU Faculty or unit:	Faculty of Social Studies
Project Period:	1/2023 — 12/2023
Investor:	Masaryk University / Specific research - support for student projects

Society in times of crisis: Rationalization and its Social Effects (MUNI/A/1567/2021)

MU Researcher:	doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D.
MU Faculty or unit:	Faculty of Social Studies
Project Period:	1/2022 — 12/2022
Investor:	Masaryk University / Specific research - support for student projects

The thirteenth immigrant? An in-depth exploration of the public perception of migration in the Czech Republic (GA20-08605S)

MU Researcher:	prof. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ph.D.
MU Faculty or unit:	Faculty of Social Studies
Project Period:	1/2020 — 12/2022
Investor:	Czech Science Foundation / Standard Projects

Migration and Mobility: Cultural Sociological Perspectives (MUNI/A/1378/2020)

MU Researcher:	prof. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ph.D.
MU Faculty or unit:	Faculty of Social Studies
Project Period:	1/2021 — 12/2021
Investor:	Masaryk University / Specific research - support for student projects

Society in times of crisis and the institutional consequences of technology (MUNI/A/1475/2020)

MU Researcher:	doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D.
MU Faculty or unit:	Faculty of Social Studies
Project Period:	1/2021 — 12/2021
Investor:	Masaryk University / Specific research - support for student projects

Publications

Type

Total number of publications: 26

2025

You Can’t Take it to Heart : How Czech Residents from MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa Make Sense of Ethnoracial Othering

RAPOŠ BOŽIČ Ivana KLVAŇOVÁ Radka JAWORSKY Bernadette Nadya

Article in Periodical

Cultural Sociology, year: 2025, DOI

2024

‘I always felt I have something I must do in my life’ : meaning making in the political lives of refugee non-citizens

JAWORSKY Bernadette Nadya KLVAŇOVÁ Radka SIDIROPULU JANKŮ Kateřina

Article in Periodical

Identities, year: 2024, volume: 31, edition: 2, DOI

2023

‘What do we see when we look at people on the move’? A visual intervention into civil sphere and symbolic boundary theory

JAWORSKY Bernadette Nadya SYNEK RÉTIOVÁ Alica BINDER Werner

Article in Periodical

Visual Studies, year: 2023, volume: 38, edition: 5, DOI
Everything’s going according to Plan(demic) : a cultural sociological approach to conspiracy theorizing

JAWORSKY Bernadette Nadya

Article in Periodical

American Journal of Cultural Sociology, year: 2023, volume: 11, edition: 1, DOI
Foreigner, migrant, or refugee? How laypeople label those who cross borders

RAPOŠ BOŽIČ Ivana KLVAŇOVÁ Radka JAWORSKY Bernadette Nadya

Article in Periodical

Migration Studies, year: 2023, volume: 11, edition: 1, DOI
The legitimacy of European Union migration and asylum policy among the Czech public

KROTKÝ Jan JAWORSKY Bernadette Nadya KANIOK Petr

Article in Periodical

Sociologický časopis, year: 2023, volume: 59, edition: 3, DOI

2022

The Ukrainian Refugee "Crisis" and the (Re)production of Whiteness in Austrian and Czech Public Politics

SHMIDT Victoria JAWORSKY Bernadette Nadya

Article in Periodical

Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics, year: 2022, volume: 16, edition: 2, DOI

2021

‘A brother is more than a neighbour’ : Symbolic boundary work in Czech pro-migration discourse

JAWORSKY Bernadette Nadya KROTKÝ Jan

Article in Periodical

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, year: 2021, volume: 8, edition: 3, DOI
‘It's (not) who we are’ : Representing the nation in US and Canadian newspaper articles about refugees entering the country

JAWORSKY Bernadette Nadya

Article in Periodical

Nations and Nationalism, year: 2021, volume: 27, edition: 2, DOI
Shifting categories, changing attitudes : A boundary work approach in the study of attitudes toward migrants

RÉTIOVÁ Alica RAPOŠ BOŽIČ Ivana KLVAŇOVÁ Radka JAWORSKY Bernadette Nadya

Article in Periodical

Sociology Compass, year: 2021, volume: 15, edition: 3, DOI

Supervisor

Field of study: International Relations and European Politics

Topics of doctoral theses (supervisor)

The Melancholy of Politics - Narratives of Leadership in Popular Culture – ongoing study

Field of study: Sociology

Topics of doctoral theses (supervisor)

From the Belt and Road Initiative to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Discursive Constructions of the Global South and Chinese National Self-Imagination – graduate 2024
A Contemporary Investigation into the Social Memory of the Transatlantic Slave trade and its Impact on Slave Descendants’ Everyday Experiences in Southwest Cameroon and the Cross River State Nigeria – graduate 2024
Do That Machine Got a Song to Sing? The Meaning of Technology Resistance in U.S. American Culture – graduate 2023

Topics of doctoral theses (consultant)

Global Inspirations and Plastic Modesty: The Case of Intimacy and Composite Gender Arrangements in Iran – graduate 2021

Field of study: Sociology

Topics of doctoral theses (supervisor)

Exploring the meaning and making of kroj (folk dress): Contemporary and traditional folk art practices from the perspective of Czechs and Czech-Americans – ongoing study
The impact of political satirical television shows - a comparative, cultural sociological approach to entertainment media – ongoing study

Topics of doctoral theses (consultant)

“One must do something meaningful”: The cultural-sociological reconstruction of the “conflict over family” in Slovakia – graduate 2021

Field of study: Sociology

Topics of doctoral theses (supervisor)

‘Political Farming’: Framing Welfare Recipients in Slovak Political Discourse – graduate 2019

Field of study: Sociology

Topics of doctoral theses (supervisor)

The role of the media on the perception of Ukrainians in Czechia. – ongoing study

Topics of doctoral theses (consultant)

How to do Feminism? Blogging and New Media Activism as Contemporary Feminist Strategies – graduate 2020

Field of study: Sociology

Topics of doctoral theses (supervisor)

Symbolic boundary work and the transformation of identity among forced migrants from Ukraine in the Czech Republic: A cultural sociological approach – ongoing study

Detailed information on doctoral topics and students