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Women of Jazzová sekce
Kybalová, Jitka ; Cassi Pelikán, Hana (advisor) ; Houda, Přemysl (referee)
The Jazz Section was a specific Czechoslovac institution established during the late communism, in the era of lack of freedom. It originated as a group of jazz fans, later also fans of the alternative culture. Its members were active during the so-called normalisation, period which lasted from the events of Prague spring in 1968 till the Velvet revolution in 1989. The communist regime ran various oppressions against the Jazz Section, because of its free promotion of alternative culture which stired up a gigantic interest among young people. The Section was repressed by prohibitions and finally put in illegality by political trial that culminated in 1986. In this work I analyze the atmosphere of Jazzová sekce in the era of normalisation from the point of view of its active female members. The analysis is based on biographic, oral history interviews . In them, female activists talked about why they entered to Section, what had they worked on, what the Section gave them and what they learned in it. The central part of my work is a chapter dedicated to opinions and values of women activists . I also analysed the women's role in Jazzová sekce from the point of view of their male members. During the interviews, female activists sincerelly reflected and talked about persecutions and explained, from their...
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"I was eighteen and got married out of real love." Evolution of wedding ceremony in Communist Czechoslovakia
Hodačová Balvínová, Lenka ; Cassi Pelikán, Hana (advisor) ; Houda, Přemysl (referee)
The aim of this master's thesis is the study of the development and changes of the wedding customs in the years 1948 - 1989, i.e. during the period of communistic Czechoslovakia. These developments and changes were monitored by oral history quality research - by the direct interviews with participants in discussions and comparison with available sources and photographic documentation from the weddings in each period of time. The work is focused more detailed on the influence of the socialism and its economic and cultural conditions over the development of wedding practices and customs and then on deviations from the Western, or better to say non-communistic model of changes in wedding customs in Europe during the post-war period of the 20th Century. The research was pursued at the regional level. The narrators were selected with regard to their responsibility for the appropriate generation and to the time they have married.
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Living Close to the Astronauts and 'in the Centre of the Universe': Every-day Life of the 'Panel Housing' Estate Jižní Město in Prague
Cassi Pelikán, Hana ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Bittnerová, Dana (referee) ; Nosková, Jana (referee)
The subject of this thesis is to record the every-day life, local and collective memory, and relationships of individuals - local inhabitants of the 'panel-housing' estate, Jižní Město, in Prague - towards the specific urban and social space in which they live. The thesis is based on interviews, with the long-term inhabitants of Jižní Město, which were structured to record their lived experience in the housing estate during two consecutive periods in recent Czechoslovak history - the so-called normalisation and post-socialism periods. The interviews were used as an empirical counterbalance to architectural/city planning discourse and Czech media, which has interpreted the legacy of 'panel-housing' estates in a negative way, as the socialist form of housing par excellence. The aim of this thesis is to analyse this discourse, which also reflects how Czech society deals with its communist past, and to compare it with the experiences, evaluations and current challenges in the lives of these long- term inhabitants, living in the biggest Czech 'panel-housing' estate with a bad reputation. Key words: panel-housing estates, Jižní Město, housing, local/collective memory, local/urban identity, everyday life, city, so-called normalisation.
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Living Close to the Astronauts and 'in the Centre of the Universe': Every-day Life of the 'Panel Housing' Estate Jižní Město in Prague
Cassi Pelikán, Hana ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Bittnerová, Dana (referee) ; Nosková, Jana (referee)
The subject of this thesis is to record the every-day life, local and collective memory, and relationships of individuals - local inhabitants of the 'panel-housing' estate, Jižní Město, in Prague - towards the specific urban and social space in which they live. The thesis is based on interviews, with the long-term inhabitants of Jižní Město, which were structured to record their lived experience in the housing estate during two consecutive periods in recent Czechoslovak history - the so-called normalisation and post-socialism periods. The interviews were used as an empirical counterbalance to architectural/city planning discourse and Czech media, which has interpreted the legacy of 'panel-housing' estates in a negative way, as the socialist form of housing par excellence. The aim of this thesis is to analyse this discourse, which also reflects how Czech society deals with its communist past, and to compare it with the experiences, evaluations and current challenges in the lives of these long- term inhabitants, living in the biggest Czech 'panel-housing' estate with a bad reputation. Key words: panel-housing estates, Jižní Město, housing, local/collective memory, local/urban identity, everyday life, city, so-called normalisation.
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Rozvadov: Post-revolutionary Transformation of a Border Municipality through the Eyes of its Inhabitants
Skálová, Eva ; Cassi Pelikán, Hana (advisor) ; Valeš, Lukáš (referee)
The development of the border municipality Rozvadov since 1948 and its consecutive transformation after the year 1989 entailed two significant antipodes regarding the existence of the municipality as well as the lives of its inhabitants. In this master thesis, I tried the to capture the lifetime of the municipality before 1989 and its relatively substantial transformation in the era after the Velvet Revolution. This transformation is still under way. I use the oral history interviews with 17 vernacular narrators as a primary source. In the first part of the thesis, I observe the after-war resettlement of the researched area, the organizing of the border security policy and also the life in the direct vicinity of the "Iron Curtain" as it was perceived by the inhabitants. The second part of the thesis is first of all focused on the social transformation of the municipality and the concomitent effects following the change of the political regime. The aim of the thesis is to determine the most problematic aspects of the transformation of the Rozvadov municipality after 1989 from the perspective of the local inhabitants (but not exclusively). The main emphasis is put on the fact how these concomitent effects - the development of the sexual industry, Asian Markets or the construction of the casino - have...
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Women of Jazzová sekce
Kybalová, Jitka ; Cassi Pelikán, Hana (advisor) ; Houda, Přemysl (referee)
The Jazz Section was a specific Czechoslovac institution established during the late communism, in the era of lack of freedom. It originated as a group of jazz fans, later also fans of the alternative culture. Its members were active during the so-called normalisation, period which lasted from the events of Prague spring in 1968 till the Velvet revolution in 1989. The communist regime ran various oppressions against the Jazz Section, because of its free promotion of alternative culture which stired up a gigantic interest among young people. The Section was repressed by prohibitions and finally put in illegality by political trial that culminated in 1986. In this work I analyze the atmosphere of Jazzová sekce in the era of normalisation from the point of view of its active female members. The analysis is based on biographic, oral history interviews . In them, female activists talked about why they entered to Section, what had they worked on, what the Section gave them and what they learned in it. The central part of my work is a chapter dedicated to opinions and values of women activists . I also analysed the women's role in Jazzová sekce from the point of view of their male members. During the interviews, female activists sincerelly reflected and talked about persecutions and explained, from their...
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The Life After: The Life of Czechoslovac Jewish Survivers after the Second World War
Skálová, Adéla ; Cassi Pelikán, Hana (advisor) ; Houda, Přemysl (referee)
This thesis deals with post-war lives of eighteen respondents who were according to the Nuremberg Laws labeled as Jews or half-Jews. They have been imprisoned in concentration camps, they had to hide or emigrate during the World War II. This thesis focuses on their lives after the war. It traces their return, not/regaining of their property, reunification with their family and friends, or their post-war emigration. The thesis also centers around their lives after the communist regime came to power in Czechoslovakia, it was a regime that many Jewish survivors supported in the beginning. The thesis also concentrates on their lives during anti-Semitic purges in the 1950s to which many family members of the respondents fell victims. In the 1960s, borders were a bit more "open" and this was welcomed my many because most of the Jewish families had relatives and friends abroad. Lots of the respondents decided to emigrate after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. The following decades of normalization maintained the discourse of hidden anti-Semitism and restrictions of personal freedoms. Many respondents eagerly welcomed the Velvet Revolution. They were able to strengthen their own Jewish identity thanks to newly gained freedoms and emergence or re-creation of many Jewish organizations. Last but not...
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In the name of progress: Destinies of inhabitants of "disappeared" Dolní Jiřetín.
Kryšpínová, Tereza ; Cassi Pelikán, Hana (advisor) ; Vaněk, Miroslav (referee)
This master thesis deals with the story of village of Dolní Jiřetín, liquidated on the beginning of 1980s, and a destiny of its inhabitants who lived in the village until it disappeared. Dolní Jiřetín was one of many villages destroyed in region of Most since World War II because of an expansion of coal mining and chemical industry. However, its liquidation was unique because the village was divided into two parts. The southeast of the village became part of sanitary zone of chemical works in Záluží, the rest of Dolní Jiřetín was undermined by colliery called Centrum. This thesis describes history of the village and life of its inhabitants before the liquidation, especially in time of industrialization boom. The text concentrates on development of both causes of disappearance of the village - brown coal collieries and chemical works in the region of Most. Then it follows the liquidation itself, since preparation through realization to what happened in the village after all the inhabitants left. It shows the process both from the side of institutions which organized the liquidation and from the view of inhabitants of Dolní Jiřetín. In the end the thesis deals with a case of village of Horní Jiřetín which shared some parts of its history with Dolní Jiřetín and today it faces probably very similar...
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Kopisty: why we had to leave!
Pšenicová, Barbora ; Cassi Pelikán, Hana (advisor) ; Vaněk, Miroslav (referee)
Diploma thesis "Kopisty: why we had to leave!" refers to a village in Most district which has been destroyed and its people had to be evicted based on the plan of the mining industry. As the official reason for the liquidation has been mentioned the open-cast mine Ležáky. But, the thesis demonstrates, is not the only cause. The other causes of the liquidation are deep mines Jan Hus and Julius III. and expansion of sanitary zone of chemical plants. It has been proven by the investigation and it is stated in the thesis, all these factors had crucial influence on the village. The need of increased production has caused a slump of the houses and roads in Kopisty. It is surprising that, except Ležáky and chemical plants, there is no allusion to these reasons in the official plan of liquidation. The entire thesis is based on archival sources, research and oral history. The main goal is to precisely reconstruct the process of dismantling and demolition of the village. There is a documentary evidence that the phase from 1976-1981 was not the only one and that there were already demolition of buildings before. This is also confirmed by the fact that local people knew about the liquidation already in the sixties. I do not want to avoid even the up-to-date themes as are the reclamation of the city Most,...
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