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Now, about me:
I am a critical social scientist, researcher, activist, and writer.
I am also a mother of two beautiful boys, have a Canadian husband, and a really cute doggie.
I am also a very good cook and food lover, traveller, gardener, winter sports lover, and a hiker. I used to be an emcee and a singer in a digital hardcore band. Occassionally I still sing.

My life philoshopy is environmentalist, humaist and pacifist. I fight for justice and equality.
I do not like neoconservatism, neoliberalism and facist corporatism. I fear racism, climate change, greed and human stupidity.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I find couchsurfing one of the greatest thing invented. I like to host people, but I am very picky. I don't host more than once a month and I only host people that I find interesting. And of course I love surfing other people's couches :), it is the best part about travelling - having local people to stay with and being able to connect with them and learn from them!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed in Canada, USA, Poland, Germany, Slovenia and Croatia. I have also travelled with other couchsurfers. My couch has been surfed by people from the USA, Canada, Chile, Portugal, France, Poland, Germany, Greece, Australia, Argentina, Belgium, and many other non CS members.
In Canada I learned to trust my couchsurfers. They can feel at home in my place.

Interests

I currently work as a researcher at the BOKU university in Vienna, on a project www.foodalternatives.at and also at FSV, Charles University, on a project www.sustainaction.org. In the past I wrote a book about urban grassroots movements, a thesis on the right to the city, and papers on the punk subculture.
Check out more here: https://boku.academia.edu/MichaelaPixov%C3%A1

In the past I worked at the Climate Coalition of the Czech Republic, and also in an LGBTQ campaign for equal marriage.

I do my share of teaching. I am a lecturer at the University of New York in Prague (UNYP) and also UMPRUM.

My big passion is writing and speaking out about all kinds of social and environmental issues, ranging from climate crisis to housing crisis, activism, social movements, feminist issues, democratic deficit, environmental destruction, sustainable food systems, gardening etc. I have my own blog: http://blog.aktualne.cz/blogy/michaela-pixova.php
and occassionaly publish in the online commentary magazin A2larm: https://a2larm.cz/bio/michaela-pixova/

My next passion is travelling - backpacking, hiking, snowboarding. I have been to Asia and most European countries, as well as Canada, USA, Cuba, Morocco. Unfortunately I feel like I won't be able to do as much of it. In part due to having two small kids, and also because of climate change and feeling bad about flying.

Aside from all of the above, I am also into art, music, cooking and baking, abandoned buildings, yoga, dogs (!I especially my doggie Manicka!), books, languages, drawing, watching series and movies .) I also love conversations about social sciences, politics, philosophy etc etc. Password: climatejusticenow!

• dogs
• arts
• books
• architecture
• concerts
• human rights
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• running
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• hiking
• backpacking
• surfing
• snowboarding
• geography
• languages
• social science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Electro, breakcore, tekno, jungle, punk, hardcore, noise, jazz, classical, chanson, rock'n'roll... My favorites are Joy Division, Orbital, Kap Bambino, Dead Kennedies, Waltari...

Movies: Control, Che, Vinetou, The Take, Kite Runner, Capitalism: A love story, Food, Inc.

Series: Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, The Young Ones, Californication, Pose, a bunch of Czech series that you probably never heard of :)

Favourite authors: David Harvey, Slavoj Zizek, Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Guy Debord, Sharon Zukin, Saskia Sassen, Jane Jacobs, Erich From, Noam Chomsky, Mark Fisher, Jan Keller.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Amazing things I have done since 2014
Had two home-births!
Seen my sons grow and develop every day!
Published my first book!
Wrote a viral blog post about climate change in October 2018!
Organized climate activists in Czechia.
Got hired into two international research projects.

Amazing things I did before 2014
Met David Harvey!
Sailed to fort Boyard!
Got my Ph.D. in human geography.
Spent four days with orangutans in Indonesian jungle.
Snowboarded in Romanian mountains in the craziest suicidal conditions.
Travelled on train for three days to visit a teknival on Krym peninsula in Ukraine.
Took the worst muddy 500 km road from Manali to Ladakh, North India...
For three months I squatted in London near the cemetary where Karl Marx was burried.
Saw the Kap Bambino concert in New York.
Got Mánička!!!!
Drove up to James Bay. Drove from Toronto to New Orleans.
I got lost on my snowboard in the Slovak mountains for several hours!
Slept in a Berber village in High Atlas in Morocco (while pregnant)!
Won a post-doctoral research grant for three years!!!

Teach, Learn, Share

Aside from talking about climate change, climate crisis and climate action, I can also give you the perspective of a critical geographer on many things in our weird era of Anthropocene... Such as the corporate food system and its alternatives, such as gardening. I am also quite knowlegdable when it comes to activism, civil society and social movements.
I can teach you how to cook some vegetarian and exotic meals (maybe some Czech ones too :) or how to snowboard :)
I can share my experience with home birth!
I can teach you some Czech, tell you about our country and Prague.
I would love to practice my French, German, Spanish and see how you make your own national food :).

What I Can Share with Hosts

Everything from the above, plus my really great social networks in Czechia :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Nepal, Norway, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Czech Republic, France, United Kingdom, United States

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