Doc. Zdeněk Konopásek, Ph.D.
As sociologist of science, he is based at the Center for Theoretical Study, the institute for advanced studies of Charles University in Prague and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. In the past, he lectured qualitative research methods, sociology of science and sociological theory at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, and at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno.
His main areas currently are STS (science and technology studies), especially complex relationships between expertise and democratic politics; an interactionist study of power and resistance under state socialism; and computer assisted qualitative data analysis. He published a book Estetika sociálního státu: O krizi reprezentace (nejen) v sociálním zabezpečení [The welfare state aesthetics: The crisis of representation (not only) in social security] (GplusG 1998) and edited Our lives as database: Doing a sociology of ourselves - Czech social transitions in autobiographical research dialogues (Charles University Press 2000).
He is founder and former long-time editor-in-chief of the journal Biograf (http://www.biograf.org). And a musician, drummer. Married to Helena; son Jakub.
Current grants (Researcher):
2020 - 2023, TAČR ÉTA TL03000439
Selected bibliography:
Konopásek, Zdeněk (2023): When two argue, the third… observes: A sociological study of scientific controversies
Československý časopis pro fyziku, 73 (1): 4-7 [detail]
Maršálek, Jan; Konopásek, Zdeněk; Hadwiger Zámečník, Lukáš (2022): How much physics can fit into a vacuum pump (and what everything fits into physics)?
Československý časopis pro fyziku, 72 (6): 424-426 [detail]
Konopásek, Zdeněk (2022): Religion in action: How Marian apparitions may become true
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 12 (1): 170–183 [detail]
Říha, Cyril; Konopásek, Zdeněk; Prach, Jindřich; a kol., (2021): "How to build in PLA". From prescription to practice
Ochrana přírody, 4/2021, p. 43-47. [detail]
Konopásek, Zdeněk (2021): The end of hermeneutics? Atlas.ti, version 9
Biograf, 73-74: 233-246 [detail]
Konopásek, Zdeněk (2020): Anthropocene: More than one, less than many
In: P. Pokorný & D. Storch, eds: Antropocén. Praha: Academia. Pp. 32-50 [detail]
Konopásek, Zdeněk (2020): Existence multiple: How does it fit in the table?
Biograf, 71-72: 93-104 [detail]
Konopásek, Zdeněk (2020): Latour and anthropocene: Complicated relations between intellectual and political radicalism
Vesmír, 99 (150): 512-514 [detail]
Pokorný, Petr; Konopásek, Zdeněk (2020): We are all in the thick of it: A dialogue about climate change science, politics and activism
In: A. Vondra, ed: Must environmentalism be alarmist? Searching for realistic answers. Brno: Books & Pipes. Pp. 67-105 [detail]
Konopásek, Zdeněk; Soneryd, Linda; Svačina, Karel (2018): Lost in translation: Czech dialogues by Swedish design
Science & Technology Studies, 31 (3): 5-23 [detail]
Brož, Luděk; Stöckelová, Tereza; Konopásek, Zdeněk (2015): Symetrie je často stranická: Rozhovor se Zdeňkem Konopáskem
Cargo - Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology, (1-2): 117-132. [detail]
Konopásek, Zdeněk; Paleček, Jan (2012): Apparitions and possessions as boundary objects: An exploration into some tensions between mental health care and pastoral care
Journal of Religion and Health, 51 (3): 970-985
Konopásek, Zdeněk (2011): Making thinking visible with ATLAS.ti: Computer assisted qualitative analysis as textual practices
In: G. Mey & K. Mruck, eds.: Grounded theory reader. 2nd updated and extended edition. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag. Pp. 381-403 [detail]
Konopásek, Zdeněk; Paleček, Jan (2010): Apparitions and possessions as boundary objects: An exploration into some tensions between mental health care and pastoral care.
Journal of Religion and Health (28 October 2010), pp. 1-16. DOI: 10.1007/s10943-010-9409-9. ISSN 0022-4197 (Print) 1573-6571 (Online). IF 0.358.
Slanina, František; Konopásek, Zdeněk (2010): Eigenvector localization as a tool to study small communities in online social networks
Advances in Complex Systems
Konopásek, Zdeněk; Paleček, Jan (2010): The principle of symmetry from the respondents’ perspective: Possessions, apparitions and mental illnesses in research interviews with clerics.
Journal of Religion and Health (28 October 2010), pp. 1-16. DOI: 10.1007/s10943-010-9409-9. ISSN 0022-4197 (Print) 1573-6571 (Online). IF 0.358.
Konopásek, Zdeněk (2010): Where does the religious truth comes from? A sociological view on Marian apparitions and demonic possessions
Biograf (52-53): 89-101 [detail]
Konopásek, Zdeněk (2010): Science, everyday life and the concept of life-world
In: B. Velický, K. Trlifajová & P. Kouba (eds.): Spor o přirozený svět [A controversy over the life-world]. Praha: Filosofia. Pp. 173-196
[detail]Konopásek, Zdeněk; Stöckelová, Tereza; Zamykalová, Lenka (2008): Making pure science and pure politics: On the expertise of bypass and the bypass of expertise
Science, Technology & Human Values, 33 (4): 529-553
Konopásek, Zdeněk (2007): Making thinking visible with Atlas.ti: Computer assisted qualitative analysis as textual practices
Historical Social Research, 19: 276-298
Konopásek, Zdeněk; Kusá, Zuzana (2006): Political screenings as trials of strength: Making the communist power/lessness real
Human Studies, 29 (3): 341-362
Konopásek, Zdeněk; Paleček, Jan (2006): V moci ďábla: Exorcismus věřícnýma očima
Biograf (40-41): 138-171
Konopásek, Zdeněk (2000): Our lives as database: Doing a sociology of ourselves - Czech social transitions in autobiographical research dialogues
Praha: Karolinum (Charles University Press)
Konopásek, Zdeněk (1999): Otevřená minulost: autobiografická sociologie státního socialismu
Praha: Karolinum
Konopásek, Zdeněk; Kusá, Zuzana (1999): Budovanie komunistickej moci a bezmocnosti
Sociológia, 31 (5): 459-480
Konopásek, Zdeněk (1999): Od Černé knihy k černé skříňce: komunismus relativizujícíma očima
Biograf (18-19): 3-24