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A Strange Affection: Gender, Race, and Interspecies Relations in Francis Ratcliffe's Australian Travelogue
Thompson, Faolan ; Lorenz - Meyer, Dagmar (vedoucí práce) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (oponent)
Faolan Thompson A Strange Affection: Gender, Race, and Interspecies Relations in Francis Ratcliffe's Australian Travelogue Abstract Settler colonialism by the early twentieth century reshaped the Australian landscape, through which English ecologist and future conservationist Francis Ratcliffe (1904-1970) traveled in the name of scientific and economic evaluation. His travelogue Flying Fox and Drifting Sand (1947) detailed his stories of studying fruit bats (flying foxes) in less-densely-settled areas and provided a glimpse of settler life in the outback. Through close reading of this text, this thesis analyzes his interspecies approach to ecology; how race and gender frame those interspecies relations; his affective relationship and attentiveness to the animals and environment, and how travelogue opened possibilities for differential conceptions of epistemology, embodiment, science, and nature. The thesis investigates how intra-active and response-able approaches to nature can be read in historical accounts of scientific exploration. His relationships to white settler Australians and interest in conservation develop through intersecting stories of masculinity, colonialism, objectivity, animality, and race to offer a nuanced subject position in his travel narrative. Key words: Australia, gender, race,...
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The Men's Movement in Post-Soviet Russia
Sharko, Lyudmila ; Lorenz - Meyer, Dagmar (vedoucí práce) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (oponent)
This thesis examines the men's movement in post-Soviet Russia - the first grass-root gender-based movement of men and a social phenomenon unique for the whole post-Soviet area that emerged in Russia in 2000. The social phenomenon was studied by the method of non-participant remote ethnography, involving multi-year observation of online activity of the Russian men's community, using the theoretical framework, built on R. Connell's masculinity theory and the Russian and Western academic sources. The online texts and video narratives of the research sample were analyzed focusing on the social and economic reasons for this men's movement beginning and the evolution of their cause from anti-feminist backlash to a more progressive and gender-sensitive one over the 2000-2021 period of existence. The liberal wing of the Russian Men's Movement, the Egalitarian Men's Movement, undergoes special scrutiny to determine whether it signifies that progressive trend in the Russian masculinity transformation. The research project provides insight into the controversial views of the Russian men on feminism and the social role of women, as well as into the ways the Russian men construct, perform and contest their masculinities with all the contradictions and inconsistencies that this process may involve. Keywords:...
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Autobiography, Subjectivity, and Agency: Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness
Pedersen, Elisabeth ; Kobová, Ĺubica (vedoucí práce) ; Lorenz - Meyer, Dagmar (oponent)
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) byla progresivní a revoluční aktivistka, která zasvětila svůj život bojům s válečnými, chudobami, bezdomovectvím a represivními kapitalistickými politikami, stále však stála za esencialistickými představami o genderu a byla kritická vůči genderové politice Emmy Goldman a mnoho feministek druhé vlny, jako je Betty Friedan. Tato analýza proto poskytuje interpretaci vztahů, rozporů, ztělesnění a mlčení v Denní autobiografii Dlouhá osamělost (1952), aby bylo možné nahlédnout do způsobu, jakým "rámuje" své "já" jako ženu mezi studenou válkou diskurs. Tato analýza se snaží kriticky prozkoumat Dorothyho autobiografii prostřednictvím feministické čočky, která chápe akt psaní autobiografie jako performativního aktu (Smith, 1998), a proto umožňuje analýzu, která se zaměřuje na pojmy subjektivita a agentura, a tak zpochybňuje fundamentalistické představy o identitě. Tato interpretace odhaluje způsoby, kterými Day umísťuje své subjektivní "já" skrze diskurs a jak autobiografické "já" zobrazuje momenty jednání, odporu a potenciálních změn, když se oba přizpůsobují hegemonickým diskurzům o ženskosti a brání jim, aby s nimi hovořily a proti veřejnému diskurzu, který ji obklopuje jako "moskevská Marie", čímž autorizuje její práci a její roli v katolické dělnici.
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The Importance of Religion and Spirituality in Feminist Science Fiction Literature
Okur, Özge ; Helman, Ivy Ann (vedoucí práce) ; Lorenz - Meyer, Dagmar (oponent)
The present study explores the role of religion and spirituality in feminist visions of the future. The focus of the thesis is the point where feminist alternative realities intersect with spirituality and religion based on the novels; the Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk and the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. The study examines the power of religion, how it controls and oppresses lives and its relationship with the state and individuals in relation to Margaret Atwood's novel the Handmaid's Tale. On the other hand, I explore how religion and spirituality could be a powerful tool to provide a peaceful and diverse society in terms of gender and sexuality as well as to provide environmental sustainability through Starhawk's novel the Fifth Sacred Thing. In the study, through analysing the religious aspects in those two novels, I question the importance of religion and spirituality in feminist science fiction, more precisely, in feminist utopian/dystopian literature.
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Gender, ethnicity and peacebuilding in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Zamanov, Ramil ; Lorenz - Meyer, Dagmar (vedoucí práce) ; Baslarová, Iva (oponent)
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a territorial and ethnic conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh that has led to war, displacement, trauma and continuing animosities. This thesis examines the differential long-term effects of the conflict in the lives of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and refugees from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh who have remained largely excluded from current peacebuilding initiatives. Ethnographic fieldwork and interviews were conducted with displaced and refugee women and with queers in Sumgayit and Baku in Azerbaijan and around Tbilisi in Georgia. The research uses an intersectional sensibility to explore the constitution and effects of economic hardship, ill-health and social exclusion as well the militarization in the life histories and everyday experiences of IDP and refugee women and queers. On this basis, it reflects what their participation, insights and concerns could contribute to the stalled peace processes and what cultural and societal changes will be required for peacebuilding and a more lasting resolution of this frozen conflict. Key words: Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, gender, ethnicity, intersectionality, peacebuilding, militarization, queer community, IDP and refugee women 1
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