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The Balkans between Europe and Orient. Image of the Balkans in the Czech and French popularizing journalism (1875-1914)
Sobotková, D.E.A., Hana ; Hroch, Miroslav (advisor) ; Řezník, Miloš (referee) ; Moravcová, Mirjam (referee)
The following work is, in general area, focusing on questions of cultural history of 19th and 20th century - mainly to the questions of cultural stereotypes and identities. In the spirit of modern methodological approaches towards studies of history, it presents the comparison of image of Balkan in Czech and French popular science journalism at the turning point of 19th and 20th centuries. The concrete target of the study is to find out what was the image of so called Balkan peninsula, that was offered to the well educated Czech and French public in the sources (mainly magazines) of non-fiction character in between 1875 and 1914. Comparison of Czech and French view of the Balkan represents an attempt for comparison of points of views of the two different cultural and historical environments. The Czech perspective is the view of a "small" (non-state) nation, which was in the given time making an attempt for a cultural and national emancipation in the frame of multinational empire. On the other side is the French perspective of a "big" (state) nation, which has been, at the turning point of the 19th and 20th century, a cultural, political and colonial power. The aspect of methodology of this work is inspired by the modern methodological approaches focused on studying cultural stereotypes and identities. The...
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Cottagers: Social Aspects of a Subculture in the so-called normalization Period
Schindler-Wisten, Petra ; Moravcová, Mirjam (advisor) ; Vaněk, Miroslav (referee) ; Mücke, Pavel (referee)
Cottagers: Social Aspects of a Subculture in Everyday Life Studies in the So-Called Normalization Period in Czechoslovakia. Petra Schindler-Wisten The subject of the doctoral thesis is to analyze the cottage dwelling, its development and expansion in the period of the so-called normalization period, with particular attention to its impact on the daily lives of citizens in Czechoslovakia. This paper is based on an oral history research that has been carried out with 30 cottagers from all regions of the Czech Republic. The main aim of this project has not been only to collect interviews with members of this particular group, but also to conduct the analysis of these interviews, to critically deal with their content and confront them with other sources, partly also with interviews from other projects. Cottaging as a social phenomenon started to develop dynamically after the WWII. In the second part of the 20th century it went through several phases. The phenomenon of cottaging is usually talked about in close connection with the period of the so-called normalization. However the origins of this phenomenon can be traced back to the end of the 19th century. It is a fact that the number of cottages was three times higher during the so-called normalization era than in the previous period. The author focused on the...
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Media Image of the Romani
Divíšková, Jaroslava ; Vojtěchovský, Miroslav (advisor) ; Moravcová, Mirjam (referee)
This master's thesis presents the media image of the Czech Romani and the origins of stereotyping them in relation to the individual photography project of the American portrait photographer Chade Evans Wyatt. The thesis propose two interrelated questions. While the first one is concerned with the media image of Romani as constructed by the Czech daily newspapers and television from the 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century. The second question reviews the significance of the monothematic part of Wyatt's artwork, who within the same time attempted both to create and present a new media image of the Czech Romani that would confront the stereotypical approach of the majority to the Romani, which at the beginning became the major motive for that project.
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