Jana Krčmářová
Jana Krčmářová
QUALIFICATIONS
2015 Ph.D., Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague
2009 Mgr., Social Ecology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague
2005 Mgr., Vegetation Ecology, Biological Faculty, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
Bio-cultural Heritage; Heritages of Agriculture and Forestry Industrialisation; Relic Land and Resources Management Systems; Trees in Agriculture and Traditional Use of Forests; Food security and Bio-cultural Diversity Protection; Memory in the Way We Live; Taskscapes/Landscapes; Biophilia; Animal, Plant, Mushroom and Other Others.
RESEARCH PROFILE
My long-term research interest are the human bio-cultures and their changes through times and places. I like to think alongside Tim Ingold, seeing human as an ecological self – biosocial becoming – raised by many things in the world or more precisely by their particular time and space gatherings (of living and non-living “others”).
In such dwelling perspective people live in constant engagement with their surroundings, constantly re-interpreting it like both the lived past and possible futures. We can also say that there is a memory stored in the way we live.
The landscapes profoundly changed with industrialisation of crop production, animal husbandry and wood management. The study of bio-cultural heritage of industrialisation of agriculture and forestry, is of utmost importance nowadays. It opens questions of changing material words (e.g. pollution, resource abundance, animal welfare, biodiversity drop, ecosystem resilience and diversity) together with our inner words and values, our identities.
Coming from these theoretical roots, I engage in the study of preindustrial natural resources management systems, the treatment and interpretation of their relics, their protection and possible uses today. The bio-cultural diversity protection, especially the policies arising “bottom up”, can be currently used in food security and countryside development strategies.
Edited Volumes and Special Issues
2022 Stromy v zemědělství. Historie a současnost agrolesnictví v České republice. [Trees in agriculture. Historical and current agroforestry in the Czech republic.] Prague: Academia. 196 pp.
2020 Ořezáváné stromy - Zapomenuté dědictví. Historie, současnost a význam v ochraně přírody. [Pollard trees – a forgotten legacy. History, present, and importance in nature conservation.] Věrovany: Agentura Gevak s. r. o., 2020. 79 pp. (main authors Lukáš Čížek, David Hauck, Gašpar Čamlík, Pavel Šebek, Jan Vondrák, Michal Plátek et al.)
Journal Articles
2022 Agroforestry in the Czech Republic: What Hampers the Comeback of a Once Traditional Land Use System? Agronomy 12(1), 69. (co-authors Bohdan Lojka, Nikola Teutscherová, Anna Chládová, Lukáš Kala, Peter Szabo, Antonín Martiník, Jan Weger, Jakub Houška, Jakub Červenka, Radim Kotrba and et al.)
2021 Building Agroforestry Policy Bottom-Up: Knowledge of Czech Farmers on Trees in Farmland. Land 10(3), 278. (co-authors Lukáš Kala, Alica Brendzová a Tomáš Chabada)
2020 Loss of Agroforestry: Symbolic Annihilation of Mixed Cultures in 19th Century Agricultural Science. European Countryside 12(4): 618-635.
2019 Stručná historie stromů v zemědělství v Čechách. [A Brief History of Trees in Agriculture in Czech Lands.] Český lid = Czech Ethnological Journal 106 (2): 179-204.
2017 Environmental factors influencing the distribution of agricultural terraces: Case study of Horný Tisovník, Slovakia. Moravian geographical reports 25(1): 34–45 (co-authors Martina Slámová, Pavel Hronček, Mariana Kaštierová)
2017 Czech traditional agroforestry: historic accounts and current status. Agroforestry Systems 91(6): 1087-1100 (co-author Leoš Jeleček)
2016 Stromy v horském zemědělství 19. století. Historie a současnost lesozemědělských ploch v katastrálním území Velký Uhřínov. [Trees in mid-19th century mountain agriculture. History and present of agro-forestry plots in Velký Uhřínov cadastral area.] Orlické hory a Podorlicko 22(1–2): 13–36.
2011 The third mission of higher education institutions: conceptual framework and application in the Czech Republic. European Journal of Higher Education 1(4): 315-331
2010 Dvě cesty ke třetí roli vysokých škol. Srovnání konceptualizace OECD a UNESCO. [Third role of universities. Comparative study of OECD and UNESCO conceptualisation.] AULA 18 (4): 17-29.
2009 Tržní transformace vysokoškolských institucí: různé teoretické konceptualizace. [Market-based Transformation of Higher Education Institutions: Mayor Theoretical Conceptualisation] AULA 17(3): 47-54.
2009 E.O.Wilson's concept of biophilia and the environmental movement in the USA. Klaudyan 6 (1-2): 4-17
2009 Hypotéza biofilie Edwarda O. Wilsona. Envigogika 4(3).
2007 Cesty zboží jsou nevyzpytatelné. Ekologie a společnost 4: 15–16
Book Chapters
2022 Agrolesnictví ve stabilním katastru z poloviny 19. století. [Agroforestry in the stabile cadastre from 1850s.] In Jana Krčmářová (Ed.) Stromy v zemědělství. Historie a současnost agrolesnictví v České republice. Pragze, Academia, pp. 21-32.
2022 Agrolesnictví v odborné zemědělské a lesnické literatuře 19. století.[Agroforestry in agricultural and forestry scientific literature in the 19th century.] In Jana Krčmářová (Ed.) Stromy v zemědělství. Historie a současnost agrolesnictví v České republice. Pragze, Academia, pp. 33-43. (main author Peter Szabo)
2022 Relikty agrolesnictví v současné krajině – terénní výzkum. [Agroforestry relics in contemporary landscape – results of fieldwork research.] In Jana Krčmářová (Ed.) Stromy v zemědělství. Historie a současnost agrolesnictví v České republice. Pragze, Academia, pp. 44-56.
2022 Význam stromů na zemědělské půdě v dobách klimatických změn z pohledu českých zemědělců. [The importance of trees on agricultural lands in the climate change times as seen by Czech farmers.] In Jana Krčmářová (Ed.) Stromy v zemědělství. Historie a současnost agrolesnictví v České republice. Prague, Academia, pp. 148-156. (co-author Lukáš Kala)
2016 Traditional agriculture as cultural heritage. Forgotten agroforestry practices recorded in textual part of 19th century tax records. In Agnoletti M., Emanueli F. (Eds.) Biocultural diversity in Europe, Springer Verlag, Environmental history series. Pp 211-231 (co-author Martin Arnold).
Ongoing Projects and Grants
2021-2025 Maternity leave
Past Projects and Grants
2018- 2020 Agroforestry - Potential for Regional Development and Sustainable Rural Landscape. ETA project (TAČR TL 01000298). Co-principal investigator.
2016–2018 Czech Agricultural Revolution of 19th Century in the Perspective of Microhistory and Ecological Anthropology. Standard project (GAČR GA16-15716S). Principal Investigator.
Editorial Work
2010 AULA, Revue pro vysokoškolskou a vědní politiku. [AULA, Review for Higher Education and Research Politics]. Executive editor.
External Reviewing
Journal Articles Manuscript Review: Český lid. [Czech Ethnological Journal]
Teaching Experience
2006 - 2011 Lecturer. Department of Social and Cultural Ecology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague.
Conference and Workshop Organisation
2011 June. Environmental History Interdisciplinary Workshop, Center for Experimental Archeology Villa Nova, Velký Uhřínov pod Velkou Deštnou. Organized for Department of Social and Cultural Ecology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University.
