Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Social Sciences |
2021
Abstract
The chapter examines the contribution of Reality Television programmes to the social imagination of poverty in Czech society. We collected Czech-made Reality Television in which people with a low total volume of capitals but high life risks regularly appeared and observed how they themselves, their interactions with others, their practices, and their living conditions were performed and what changes their capitals and risks underwent during the programme.
The analysis revealed two typical representations: Poverty was performed either as the inevitable mode of existence of social others or as a failure in making it invisible.