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Historical Parallels in Czech Political Debate in the Context of the Russian-Ukrainian War
Hronek, Matěj ; Ira, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
This thesis studies the usage of historical annalogies by Czech parliamentary parties in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war of 2022. It focuses on four subjects - ruling coalitions SPOLU and Piráti+STAN and two oposition movements ANO and SPD. The main goal of this work is to analyze specific analogies to unravel the motivations and goals hidden behind them. Thesis also focuses on studying frequency and structure of used annalogies and aims to describe, how important geopolitical event like Russian invasion changed it. KEY WORDS Historical parallels, political discourse, politics of memory, Parliament of the Czech Republic, Russian-Ukrainian War.
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Designing holidays in the Polish People's Republic: socialist modernism in Ustroń Zawodzie holiday complex.1967-1990
Ciupka, Maria ; Ira, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Veress, Dániel (referee)
in English This master's thesis proposes a study of the history of architecture of Ustroń- Zawodzie, a recreation complex in the Silesian Beskid mountains in Southwest Poland, constructed under the auspices of the socialist government in the 1960s and 1970s in the Polish People's Republic. The paper examines the architects' sketches, projects, and selected materials from architectural journals and Polish media to investigate the role these representations play in the more comprehensive process of the production of space in the Beskid mountains in Upper Silesia. First, the Ustroń-Zawodzie's rich history is situated in the global and local contexts of leisure and leisure architecture developments in the 1960s and 1970s, emphasizing the emergence of leisure and leisure architecture in the Polish People's Republic as processes that developed in parallel to other post-war European states. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space and recent approaches to architectural research, a two-level framework for analysis is established. The first level of this framework aims to identify the conditions of possibility for the construction of Ustroń- Zawodzie. In contrast, the second level investigates how the Ustroń-Zawodzie space is produced through its representations. The analysis of...
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Sintra in the Twentieth Century European Narratives: Otherness and Identity
Garcia Pereira Oliveira, Cláudia ; Ira, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Szobi, Pavel (referee) ; Czoch, Gábor (referee)
in English This thesis is based on an analysis of 20th century narratives about Sintra, Portugal. The narratives are present in travelogues, guidebooks, flyers, and postcards. Regarding travel literature, this study has confronted and compared 20th century foreign accounts about Sintra with national ones. The analysis includes both otherness and identity perspectives of the place, allowing the thesis to better understand the identity of the landscape of Sintra. The descriptions in travel literature or in visual sources about Sintra represent a specific mixture of cultural and natural elements - tangible and intangible heritage, and natural heritage. This combination results in the representation of Sintra's places of memory, and of its Cultural Landscape. The narratives in this research address various subthemes within larger themes of man, nature, and their mutual relation. The themes are translated into Sintra's cultural and natural heritage, merged with poetic discourses that create poetic narratives based on both cultural and natural elements. The themes thus enable the deconstruction of Sintra's Cultural Landscape and, once assembled into a single narrative, converge into a representation of the landscape, that is, an image of the place in the 20th century. Keywords: Sintra 20th century...
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Kurdish Identity and The Revolutionary Left in Turkey From Eastern Question to Kurdish Question (1960-1990)
Hatapçı, Ali ; Ira, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Czoch, Gábor (referee)
This study is based on the relationship between the Kurds and the Left in Turkey between 1960s and 1990 in Turkey. The question of identity is discussed in terms of the continuities and ruptures in the discourse(s) of the Left in Turkey on the 'eastern question' and 'Kurdish (national) question' in this period. The main question of the research is how the Kurdish identity was constructed in the discourses of Yön, TKSP (Türkiye Kürdistanı Sosyalist Partisi - Turkish Kurdistan Socialist Party), and the PKK (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê - Kurdistan Workers' Party). Three sample publications/organizations representative of the leftist discourse in the period were selected to show the Left's treatment of the Kurdish question by using periodical publications, memoirs, clandestine organizational documents and through discourse analysis.
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The historical symbolism in the education literature of Czechoslovak Legions
Purkert, Jan ; Vojtěchovský, Ondřej (advisor) ; Ira, Jaroslav (referee)
This bachelor's thesis contains an analysis of various modes of utilization of historical themes in educational literature, which was produced by Legionnaires, in the context of Legionnaire movement. The goal is to detect how and which motives are employed by Legionnaires for construction of their identity and explication of the context of their movement within the national history. The method of achieving this goal is to survey the distribution of historical themes among various types of titles. The results serve as a basis for setting the historical symbolism into the context of social life of legionnaires in the interwar period and for detection of factors, which determined its formulation with comparison of differences of usage between authors with different political convictions. The first section contains interpretation of the development of the Legionnaire movement in the wartime in relation to historical motives, the second in the interwar period in the context of production of legionnaire literature. The third section describes the content of historical symbolism.
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Paris in the French, Czech and American tourist guidebooks (1918-1939)
Rudová, Lenka ; Ira, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kubišová, Vlasta (referee) ; Verdier, Nicolas (referee) ; Czoch, Gábor (referee)
in English This Master's Thesis deals with guidebooks about Paris published in France, Czechoslovakia and the United States of America between the years 1918-1939. It analyses how the French capital city is presented in the guidebooks and how far the representation differs according to the country of publishing. The first two chapters deal with the modern history of tourism up until the interwar period and with the formation of major collections of guidebooks. The following chapters use a comparative perspective to analyse three major aspects of tourist guidebooks about Paris: itineraries; recommended places and monuments (the so-called "must- sees"); and global images of Paris. The analysis reveals that the country of publishing had only a limited impact on the content of the guidebooks; rather, the books largely respected established rules and patterns within the genre. Key words: tourism, guidebook, Paris, interwar period, representation, image of the city Résumé en français Ce mémoire de master analyse des guides touristiques de Paris publiés en France, en Tchécoslovaquie et aux États-Unis entre 1918 et 1939. Le mémoire étudie de quelle façon la capitale de la France était présentée dans les guides et quelles étaient les différences de cette représentation en fonction du pays d'origine publiant...
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English as Lingua Franca in Cyprus after 2003: Questions of identity
Savoglu, Mustafa ; Ira, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Czoch, Gábor (referee) ; Sherman, Tamah (referee)
As a multilingual and multicultural island, Cyprus has been segregated based on religion, identities, communities, and nationalities. In 1974, this segregation became a physical division of the island. After twenty-nine years of division, in 2003 April 23rd , the borders or in other words, the check-points were opened, and the two biggest communities of the island; Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, have been put in contact again. The phenomenon that the both communities were put in contact again also brought the question of language along with. This thesis investigates the evolution of the language policies and planning (LPP) in Cyprus. This research has found that since the beginning of the first crossings, English language has been functioning as Lingua franca, and being spread across the divide. The research analyzes the evolution of the LPP under three categories; A) Politics and Language Policies and Planning in Cyprus, B) Civil Society and Language Policies and Planning in Cyprus, C) Education and Language Policies and Planning in Cyprus. The results of the research have shown that the both sides (North and South) are willing to achieve a Greek and Turkish bilingual Cyprus, whereas the current situation points out that the lack policies and planning along with cooperation between the two...
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The Swedish-Norwegian Union and the Independence of Norway 1814
Rozsypal Pajerová, Anna ; Županič, Jan (advisor) ; Ira, Jaroslav (referee)
(in English): This diploma thesis examines Scandinavian countries at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries and the changes behind the Napoleonic wars. This study is interdisciplinary and combines history, geo-policy, cultural and area studies. The main attention is dedicated to Norway, which has been in Union with Denmark since the 14th century, but not at an equal position. Danish support of the emperor Napoleon and the Danish affiliation to the Continental blockade caused a famine in Norway, which led to society-wide changes. By the fall of Napoleon Denmark was defeated likewise and must have signed the Kiel Treaty that gave Norway to Sweden. However, the Swedish-Norwegian union was created ten months after, because the Norwegians claimed independence, summoned the parliament, created the constitution and chose the king. Using three different perspectives (cultural, social-economical and historic-political), this diploma analyses the background of the Nordic events, explore reasons for actors' behaviour and examines the determinations of Nordic countries behind these historic occasions. The study uses the framework of Miroslav Hroch's national-build theory and inspects if the Norwegian national-build process reached the level of mass movements and accomplished the conditions to become an...
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Catholic Cathedrals in Europe and Representation of Heritage via Mobile Applications
Mazur, Ekaterina ; Ira, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Pýcha, Čeněk (referee) ; Klement, Judit (referee)
Representation of heritage via digital and online tools gains more attention from culture professionals and the general public. Mobile applications allow museums to reach wider audiences, make heritage more accessible for people with special needs and provide content in various forms. Catholic cathedrals, being the sites with great tourism potential and rich historical and cultural legacy, also create their mobile applications in several languages. This research aims to answer the question of how mobile applications contribute to the representation of the heritage of religious sites. The case studies are the mobile applications of Notre-Dame, Milan, Florence and Cologne cathedrals. The visual and textual content and the design of the applications are analyzed to explore how heritage meets religious and secular needs. As a result, it was possible to identify patterns used by the cathedrals' management and application developers when generating religious heritage content in this technologic framework. Besides, practical suggestions on improvement of the technical layout and narrative practices are made. Keywords: religious heritage, heritage representation, mobile applications, digital museum, tourism, museum communication, UNESCO 2
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Comparative Analysis of Writing Local Chronicles in Czech Republic and Slovakia in the Years 1989 - 2019
Lukáč, Martin ; Ira, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Bitušíková, Alexandra (referee)
Univerzita Karlova - Filozofická fakulta - Ústav světových dějin ABSTRACT This paper discusses the development and state-of-the-art of writing local chronicles in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the three decades after the fall of the socialist regime (1989 - 2019), placing Czech and Slovak chronicles writing practice on a comparative level. They are based on the Czechoslovak social context. This paper does not ignore also the historical context (19th century) and discusses in more detail writing local chronicles in various periods of the 20th century, as from this period draws current chronicles writing to this day. Besides the theoretical passages, the paper consists of an empirical part (not only as a section describing the field research in the form of a case study), suggests the use of chronicles in practice, and in conclusion seeks to explain and present a comparative synthesis. Following the textual core, a broader base of appendices has been prepared, consisting of both a chronicles bibliography and a direct transcript of contemporary legislative measures concerning chronicles writing in the Czech-Slovak geographical area from the establishment of the first Czechoslovak Republic to the present. Keywords : writing local chronicles; chronicle; chroniclers; commemorative books; comparative analysis;...
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