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Emigration as Life Experience: Czechs in Dennmark 1968 - 1989
Pollaková, Kateřina ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Mücke, Pavel (referee)
This diploma thesis should contribute to the study of czechoslovak emigration during 1968-1989. It should bring closer life stories of eight persons, who migrated at that time to Denmark. Attention is paid to the period of leaving the sending country and arrival at the host country. On the basis of episodic narrative interviews I will attempt to reconstruct reasons, which motivated narrators to leave Czechoslovakia, how they left and how they started new lifes in the new society.
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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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Memory and memories of World War II in Czech lands. The war memoirs of the Czechoslovak soldiers from second external resistance
Mücke, Pavel ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Vaněk, Miroslav (referee) ; Gebhart, Jan (referee)
The author of this master thesis tries to capture severa! moments of life stories of Czechoslovak soldiers and their so called war memoires (e.g. private war diaries and written memoirs, novels, poetry, interviews) bom during and after the Second World War. In the first part of dissertation is conceming e.g. these key questions: Why did the soldiers give testimony? How they did it? In what kind of written form they made it? Why those days seemed so cruel to them? How these testimonies were used by media and historians and how did they play a role in the process of fromning collective memory in Czech Lands. Examining these sources, author tried to answer for these questions. Important goal of dissertation is to demonstrate, how memoirs was perceived throughout centuries, since the ancient ages to the present and what forms were continiously developed. In the second part, us ing transformed concept of "realms of memory" (P. Nora) and "memory frames" (M. Halbwachs), author tries to demonstrate how these sources yould be used in reserahc of memory and every day life of Czechoslovak soldiers in qualitative way. To get an inspiration, the attention was tumed to methodological literature from social and human sciences in wide range escecially from abroad because Czech historiography does not reflect this topic...
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