Mgr. Tomáš Hoření Samec, Ph.D.

2014-2018: Ph.D. in Sociology; Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University

2011-2014: Mgr. (Master's degree) in Sociology; Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University 

2008-2011: Bc. in Sociology and Social Policy; Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University

• 12/2024-5/2025: Fulbright Masaryk Grant: Through Collaboration in Housing Justice We Trust?. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. United States.
• 9/2022: International Vienna Summer School - IBA Wien: Social housing production - Economic foundations of building and dwelling (TU Wien & University of Vienna). Vienna. Austria.
• 5-6/2018: FinGeo Spring School (Global Network on Financial Geography). Brussels, Belgium.
• 3/2018: Masaryk Distinguished Chair Fellowship - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel.
• 10-12/2017: Research fellowship - Aktion (Austrian OeAD-GmbH/ICM) and University of Vienna
• 8/2017:  PhD Workshop - European Sociological Association (ESA). Athens, Greece.
• 7-8/2015: ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 2-3/2014: International Winter School - Mapping Post-Socialist Urban Spaces in Vilnius

• Hoření Samec, T., Malý Blažek, J., & Houser L. (2025). Diverzifikace forem bydlení jako cesta k dostupnosti: Nejistota spojená s rozvojem participativního bydlení v ČR. Urbanismus a územní rozvoj.  ISSN 1212-0855.
• Ferenčuhová S., Fraňková, E., Hoření Samec, T. & Malý Blažek, J. (2025). Accidental degrowth practices: Illustrations from Czechia. In Routledge Handbook of Degrowth ed. Anitra Nelson. (pp. 111-125). Routledge.
• Malý Blažek J., Hoření Samec, T. & Orcígr, V. (2025). Lost in expectations. Reflections on introducing participatory housing in the Czech Republic / Ztraceno v očekáváních: zavádění participativního bydlení v Česku. In Bývanie v čase kríz / Housing in Times of Crisis eds. Lýdia Grešáková and Viktória Mravčáková (pp. 134-153). Spolka.
• Hoření Samec, T., Decker, A., & Trlifajová, L. (2024). Consumption loans consuming homes: intersections of housing precarity and personal overindebtedness. International Journal of Housing Policy,  24 (3), 501-520.
• Hoření Samec, T., & Kubala, P. (2024). Dual responsibilization for housing in a housing crisis: young adults in the Czech Republic. Housing Studies, 39(4): 857-876.
• Hoření Samec, T. & Trlifajová, L, (2023). Protect or punish debtors? Policymaker discourse on the state's role in personal debt governance. New Political Economy. 28(6), 958-970.
• Malý Blažek, J., Hoření Samec, T., Kubala, P. & Orcígr, V. (2023). Participativní bydlení: nová konceptualizace demokratických forem bydlení v České republice. Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review, 59(2), 173-195. 
• Hoření Samec, T., & Kubala, P. (2022). Dual responsibilization for housing in a housing crisis: young adults in the Czech Republic. Housing Studies, Online first publication.
• Kubala P. & Hoření Samec, T. (2021). The pace of “the good life”: Connecting past, present, and future in the context of a housing affordability crisis. Time and Society. 30(2): 198-222.
• Hoření Samec, T. (2021). “For the sake of consumer protection”: blending paternalism and neoliberalism in the discursive financialization of households in the Czech Republic in Households and Financialization in Europe: Mapping Variegated Patterns in Semi-Peripheries, eds. M. Mikuš, P. Rodik. Routledge.
• Samec, T., & Gibas, P. (2021). Urban Political Ecology of Worth and Value: Enacting Allotments in Media Discourse. Space and Culture. 24(1): 170-183.
• Samec, T. (2020). Normalization of Mortgages in Media Discourse through Affects and Instructions. Housing, Theory and Society. 37(2): 180–197.
• Samec, T. (2018). Performing Housing Debt Attachments: Forming Semi-Financialised Subjects. Journal of Cultural Economy. 11(6): 549-564.
• Lux, M., Samec, T., Bartos, V., Sunega, P., Palguta, J., Boumová, I., & Kážmér, L. (2018). Who actually decides? Parental influence on the housing tenure choice of their children. Urban Studies 55(2): 406–426.

• 2024. Affective attachments to the housing: housing governance of young adults from relational perspective & Introducing collaborative housing in the Czech Republic: Layers of suspicion or lack of capacities? European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Conference.
• 2023. When Promises Meet Materiality: Developing Urban Collaborative Housing for the Young Adults in the Housing Affordability Crisis. European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Conference.
• 2023. Consumption Loans Consuming Homes:  Moral and Affective Intersections of Housing Precarity and Personal Debt. Cities After Transition – 10th International Urban Geographies of Post-Communist States Conference. 
• 2022. Young adults and housing affordability crisis in the Czech Republic: reflection of complex temporalities and responsibilities. European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Conference.
• 2019. Housing Financialisation and Young Adults Housing Paths in the Czech Republic: Resistance or the New Everyday Reality? European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference.
• 2018. Living in the Mortgage Bubble: Performativity of Discourse in Prague’s Housing Affordability Struggle. Workshop Housing Financialization of the Semi-Periphery in Budapest. 
• 2017. Normalization of Mortgages in Public Discourse(s) in Central Europe: The Making of ‘Necessary Evil’ or ‘The Best Investment’? RC21 ISA Rethinking Urban Global Justice.
• 2016. Performance of Social Inequalities in the Housing Market: Meanings of Mortgages and Intergenerational Financial Transfers. ENHR Conference: Governance, Territory and Housing.

• 2024: Workshop of Housing, Migration and Family Dynamics working group during European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Conference: Delft.
• 2022: Workshop of Housing, Migration and Family Dynamics working group during European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Conference: The struggle for the right to housing. Barcelona
• 2021: Online Conference: Možnosti a limity participativního bydlení [Potential and limits of the collaborative housing].
• 2018: Workshop Alternativy k vlastnickému a soukromému nájemnímu bydlení [Alternative tenure to homeownership and private rental].
• 2018: Workshop New Housing Challenges: Families and Financialization. Outcome: special issue on Housing Financialisation and Families in Critical Housing Analysis journal indexed in Scopus.
• 2017: Workshop of Housing, Migration and Family Dynamics working group during European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Conference: Affordable Housing for All. Tirana.