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The creation and reproduction of historical consciousness on the example of the association Radecký Praha
Petrnoušková, Anna ; Marková, Alena (advisor) ; Maslowski, Nicolas (referee)
The master thesis "The creation and reproduction of historical consciousness on the example of the association Radecký Praha" deals with the historical consciousness, its creation and reproduction. The theoretical part defines not only historical consciousness but also pays attention to the related issues, such as collective memory, historical memory, sites of memory, or national identity, due to the fact that the boundaries between collective memory and historical consciousness are often at least unclear. Theoretical part is primarily based on the works of Maurice Halbwachs, Jan Assmann, Miroslav Hroch and Pierre Nora. The empirical part of this study concludes the research of the association Radetzky Prague, which seeks to return the monument of Marshal Radetzky on the Malostranské náměstí. The research tries to describe and understand the ways of creation and reproduction of historical consciousness of its members throughout the analysis of qualitative interviews. Mentioned authors already provide a certain methodological background research. Conclusion contains a summary and a comparison of research results with theses of authors that are dealing with similar themes. This work is not a purely historical or sociological one; it is trying to stay somewhere between historical and sociological...
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Jewish identity: formation and deformation. Ethnography of Moishe House Prague.
Adlerová, Nina ; Novotná, Hedvika (advisor) ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (referee)
This thesis is based on a long-term field research in the Prague Jewish community in which I am trying to express the Jewish identity of young Czech Jews. The aim is to characterize the formation and construction of Jewish identities, their coexistence with other types of social identities and the role of material elements in this process. The formation has a processional nature and there are continual transformations and negotiations of concrete forms of Jewish identities over time. These identities are publicly manifested through various material elements and by this manifestation those identities are also strengthened. I also examine the impact of physical structures and other objects on the Jewish community, how they strengthen its cohesion and on the role that they play in materializing and bringing the collective memories into the present. I simultaneously work with the concept of materiality in the context of the Moishe House Prague project. I examine the position of techno-social tools and the power of leadership. This thesis is based on several theoretical perspectives that I connect and combine in order for me to explore social reality and Jewishness in their entirety. Key words Identity, Jewish identity, material culture, materiality, Moishe House, formation, construct, negotiation...
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Travel Guidebooks to Prague, 1789-1914: Production, Authors, Collective Memory.
Pojar, Vojtěch ; Hojda, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Chodějovská, Eva (referee)
(in English): This study analyses Prague travel guides created in the course of the "long" 19th century. In the beginning, I outline the development of travel guides in the examined period with respect to their authors and targeted audience, and put them into the broader context of social modernisation. Subsequently, I introduce agents who stood at the birth of travel guides and demonstrate how their intentions changed within the context of the rise of modern nationalism and mass tourism. Relaying on the concept of collective memory suggested by sociologist Maurice Halbwachs, the last part of the work is based on the assumption that modernisation process enforced changes in this collective memory and that tourist guides mediate access to these past memories. That is why in these guides I focus on the question how memories of social groups relating to various "places of memory" were changing during modernisation. In this way, the presented study aims to contribute to the appreciation of travel guides as a historical source, while at the same time it offers insights on their possible scholarly utilisation.
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Representation of The Velvet Revolution and Culture Changes in Popular Culture
Korčeková, Denisa ; Soukup, Martin (advisor) ; Janeček, Petr (referee)
The thesis Representation of The Velvet Revolution and Culture Changes in Popular Culture focuses on contemporary TV series Vyprávěj and it focuses on the specific ways of representation of the historical moment of the end of the commmunist regime in Czechoslovakia. It is divided into two main part - theoretical and analytical. The theoretical one starts with a description of theoretical basis of media construction of reality and social constructivism. Following part of theoretical part is dedicated to theory of collective memory. Then the thesis continues with definiton of the principle of seriality. The next chapter is about historical description of events known under the term Velvet Revolution. In the last chapter of theoretical part is introduced TV series Vyprávěj, its plot and its main characters. It is also essential to distinguish two approaches to the analysis of media contents, which are content analysis and semiotic analysis. In the empirical part, the author defines the object of research. Then she sets hypotheses and define the categories that monitors on a sample of five relevant parts. Then several key scenes is subjected to semiotic analysis.
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Current Cultural Situation of Transylvanian Saxons in Romania
Drs, Tomáš ; Šatava, Leoš (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Pavlásek, Michal (referee)
Current Cultural Situation of Transylvanian Saxons in Romania PhDr. Tomáš Drs Abstract The thesis deals with the current situation of the Transylvanian Saxons in Romania. Based on multiple field visits, it describes and analyzes the problems related to reconstructing the ethnic identity of the community, noting the minority's transnational situation and exploring the generational relations, the minority's position in the ethnically different environment or its political and revitalization activities. The thesis also attemps to reconstruct the actual historical development, looks into how memory is socially conditioned memory and lays out biographies of individual characters. Methodologically, the thesis draws upon the tradition of ethnographic research, working with theoretical concepts of ethnicity (Eriksen, Anderson), transnationalism (Werbner, Szaló) or memory studies (Halbwachs, Assmann, Nora). The aim of the thesis is to introduce the Transylvanian Saxons and other groups commonly referred to as Romanian Germans in the Czech environment. It lays out the history of Transylvanian Saxons, describes their negotiations with the state and the framing of their minority identity. Also, it seeks to answer whether the end of the numerically smaller ethnic minority of Transylvanian Saxons is inevitable and how...
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The Massacre of Aussig in Sudeten German memory culture
Mareš, Jan ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Spurný, Matěj (referee)
(in English): Bachelor Thesis "The Massacre of Aussig in Sudeten German memory culture" describes the role the so called "Massacre of Aussig" had in the memory culture of the Sudeten Germans from Ústí region, organized arround the Aussiger Hilfsverein This developement is delimitated by the years 1945 - 1973. In this time period, the major forms of rememberance used until this day had established themselves. This description of developement of memory culture, especially the graudal of communicative memory into collective and cultural memory as well as methods of instrumentalisation and actualization of these events is based on theoretical works of Aleida Assmann, Jörn Rüsen and others.
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The image of history in film
Váňa, Martin ; Činátl, Kamil (advisor) ; Randák, Jan (referee)
(in English): The thesis focuses on therelationbetweenhistory, philosophy and film. Ituses film and TV seriessourcesproduced in the Czech Republic in the last fewyears. The thesis comprisesfrominterpretationof these sourceswiththe use ofappropriatemethodology as well as itdevelopsitsownmethod to beused to workwithhistorical film. Methodofthe thesis isdefinedaboveall by: the film thinkingofGillesDeleuze, theworks on history, time, art and ideology by Slavoj Žižek and Henry Bergson's Matter and Memory. Author uses concepts of Gilles Deleuze such as movement-image, time-image, time crystal and other, in order to describe the relation between history, memory and time, all that on the background of following audiovisual material: Czech Century, It's Gonna Get Worse, Lost in Munich, Burning Bush.
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Nostalgia in a Sociological Perspective
Šotola, Petr ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Kotík, Michal (referee)
The aim of this paper is to introduce nostalgia in sociological perspective that means to show its important social aspects. The historical evolution of the term nostalgia and some theoretical conceptualizations, which show various dimensions of the phenomenon nostalgia are presented in this work. Nostalgia is also introduced in the context of modernity and memory. Special attention is dedicated to the relationship between nostalgia and the idea of progress. This paper further point to presence of the nostalgic paradigm in social theory.
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Collective Memory and Identity of Polish Minority in Lviv: Conflict, Integration or Assimilation?
Lebduška, Michal ; Vykoukal, Jiří (advisor) ; Zilynskyj, Bohdan (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the topic of Polish minority, which remained after the Second World War in the city of Lviv that is since 1991 part of independent Ukraine. Particular focus of this project is aimed on reasearch of a relationship between collective memory and identity of this specific minority. For purpose of this project field reasearch in Lviv was conducted in the years 2014-2015. This researched focused on work with Polish periodicals that are being published in Lviv since 1990, conducting semistructured interviews with members of this community and survey research in both high schools with Polish language of education that exist in Lviv. The work itself is divided into four main chapters which focuses on theoretical concepts used for purpose of the thesis, general characteristics of Polish minority in Lviv including historical background and present-day relations with local Ukrainian majority, identity and also collective memory of this community. According to the results of the research Polish minority is very well integrated into the Ukrainian society with elements of partial assimilation that takes place also because of large number of mixed Polish-Ukrainian families or good mutual relations with the Ukrainians. Despite that there exists smaller more compact community which...
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1981 Irish Hunger Strike in Cinema
Kolínová, Kristýna ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Matějka, Ondřej (referee)
The hunger strike of Irish republican prisoners in 1981 that was held in Maze/Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland was the culmination of a protest against the abolition of Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners. Ten men starved themselves to death. The events related to the hunger strike are not forgotten to this day and still arouse disputes in the society. This thesis focuses on the analysis of popular feature films whose main theme is the hunger strike in Northern Ireland. On a theoretical level, the thesis uses the concept of collective memory which is described in more detail and applied to the issues of cinema in the first part of the thesis. The second chapter briefly presents historical context: the hunger strike itself and also its legacy today. The last and the most important part of the text deals with three movies, namely Some Mother's Son (1996), H3 (2001) and Hunger (2008) which are compared with regard to the origin of their authors, the selection of specific aspects of the historical events and time of their creation. Besides a summary of the main findings, there is also an outline of how filmmakers generally work with the theme of hunger strike in the conclusion.
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