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Half a century of inventing the mountains (1960-2010)
Moravanský, Matěj ; Spurný, Matěj (advisor) ; Janáč, Jiří (referee)
The thesis aims to describe the process of "inventing "mountains between the 60s of the 20th century and zero years of the 21st century on the example of Giant Mountains. In this process, the relationship of socialist, state-socialist and post-socialist society towards nature was formed; it is possible to trace how social and natural ecosystems interconnected and how they were devastated or, on the contrary, protected and reinforced. The ambition of the thesis is to show not only efforts to protect nature but also to describe relationships between human and nonhuman agents. The first part discusses the plans, visions and concepts defining the organising of nature in the mountains. The second part introduced some stories regarding tourism development and nature protection. The last third part contains broader arguments: the application of the post-colonial perspective, the application of Jason W. Moore's concept of "capitalist ecology ", connecting nature's condition with the crisis of legitimacy of state socialism and the neoliberal turn in the 90s of the 20th century. The thesis focuses primarily on Giant Mountains as mountains which were founded as a national park, and due to that, many broader trends were established.
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Continuities and discontinuities in the children care in years 1938-1948
Moravanský, Matěj ; Spurný, Matěj (advisor) ; Šustrová, Radka (referee)
The bachelor thesis aims to describe the development of the Czech child care system in the turbulent period between 1938 and 1948. The research is based on archival probes into three particular institutions, which provided care of young people. At the regional level, research focuses on District Youth Care (Okresní péče o mládež) in Benešov and Neveklov, at the national level, the Czech Land Youth Care Center (Zemské ústředí péče o mládež v Čechách). The thesis asks questions about continuities and discontinuities across three periods, which are fundamentally different in many aspects, but there are surprising similarities in the field of children care. Through the observation of personnel continuities, the practice of biopolitics or long-term process of centralization and nationalization of child care system, we can uncover not only the development of the care system but also changes in the world of thoughts of the inhabitants of Czech lands during the Second Czechoslovak Republic, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Third Republic.
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