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A Donkey's Worth in South Africa: Domestic Laborer or Export Product; Socioeconomic impacts of China's skin trade on South African donkey owners
Binda, Kristen ; Kváča, Vladimír (advisor) ; Verner, Vladimír (referee)
Kristen Binda A Donkey's Worth in South Africa: Domestic Laborer or Export Product; Socioeconomic impacts of China's skin trade on South African donkey owners Master Thesis Prague 2019 Abstract Within South Africa, rural communities use working animals instead of, or combined with mechanization for farming and chores. Development progress may have evaded these areas yet impacts them through globalization and China's expanded market power. The burgeoning market for ejiao, a popular Traditional Chinese Medicine made from boiling donkey hides is a growing issue. Wealthier Chinese consumers, a stalled South African rural population who missed development's benefits plus increasing economic and political engagements between the two countries allows a monopolized, and often exploitative market for donkeys. Politicians are eager to partner with Chinese ejiao retailers despite resulting decimation of donkey populations in some areas of Africa and destruction of livelihoods. I evaluate the value of donkeys as domestic laborers within South Africa along with how China's rapidly expanding market for ejiao and simultaneous consumption of donkeys has affected South Africa to answer in which context donkeys are more valuable. Interview responses and cost-benefit analyses are used to answer the research question and...
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Happening in public space and its influence on public policy. Case: Loaf bathing season in Smíchov.
Patrná, Andrea ; Kokeš, Richard (advisor) ; Kváča, Vladimír (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on one of the forms of creative activism in the public space - happening, its ability to change public policy and to highlight problems in society. The main line of this work was to determine the mechanisms and in which stage of the public policy cycle was political process influenced by Happening " Loafbathing season in Smichov". Another goal was to find out how Happening addressed the participants and which subjects were targeted. Theoretical support for the achievement of the objectives of the thesis was the phase model of the public policy cycle, which works with the idea of politics as a system of several partial processes. The objectives of the thesis were achieved by qualitative research under the auspices of a case study, ie intensive investigation of one case. The main source of data in this case was in-depth semi-structured interviews with the four types of actors, which showed in this particular case that the main mechanisms that influenced the public policy process at the stage of public policy implementation were media and The public, both mechanisms interact each other.
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Prisoners' debt after release in the Czech Republic: Approaches and barriers to improving outcomes for prisoners.
McClure, Max Samuel ; Kváča, Vladimír (advisor) ; Mertl, Jiří (referee)
This master thesis addresses financial capability levels and contextual factors leading indebted prisoners and indebted people with criminal pasts in the Czech Republic to one of three debt relief outcomes: failure to submit a successful application for personal bankruptcy, successful application but failure to complete the personal bankruptcy process, or successful completion. Although debt relief has been researched extensively from the social, legal, and economic points of view, a very small portion of the surveyed literature has addressed the group of debtors that does not apply for debt relief. The primary focus of research was to shed light on why some debtors that qualify to apply for personal bankruptcy do not do so. To explore this phenomenon, several steps were taken. First, debt counselors were interviewed to explore a list of possible reasons why debtors either didn't start or didn't finish the debt relief process. Using this preliminary feedback, a survey for debt counselors was created and refined. Once the survey had been organized using Google Forms and piloted with interviewed debt counselors and feedback was received via follow-up interviews, the survey was distributed, and results were analyzed using financial capability concepts. Statistical analyses of results were calculated...
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Integration of People after Serving a Sentence in Society
Vigner, Martin ; Kváča, Vladimír (advisor) ; Hejzlarová, Eva (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on people who have served their sentences. Specifically, it maps the success in their social integration after release from prison. The theoretical basis of the work lies in the multifactor criminogenetic theories and concepts of social exclusion. Multifactor criminogenetic theories are mentioned as one of the foundations of the penitentiary prediction tool SARPO (Comprehensive Analysis of Risks and Needs of Convicts). This tool is used in the work for better orientation in the needs and risks of people in the process of release. The theoretical anchoring of the work also deals with the problem of recidivism and adaptation after release from prison. And the issue of homelessness in connection with substance abuse and also in connection with crime. Furthermore, attention is paid to the problem of indebtedness, which can complicate the social situation of people after serving a sentence. The factual context of the researched topic is devoted to the causes of the difficult resocialization of released prisoners and to the reasons why recidivists are most often prosecuted. There are also some important statistical data concerning the number of persons imprisoned in the Czech Republic in comparison with EU countries. Attention is also paid to the amendment of the Insolvency Act...
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Undesirable Housing: So called 'non supplement zones' as a public policy problem
Matuštíková, Anna ; Kváča, Vladimír (advisor) ; Ditrych Lenc, Michaela (referee)
This thesis is a case study with a goal to comprehensively map and depict the evolution of the so- called non-supplement zones. This name is an abbreviated term that is used in media for the general provision authorizing establishing of areas of higher incidence of socially undesirable phenomena, where housing supplements are not to be payed to any new applicants. Bohemian and Moravian municipalities can make use of this measure since 2017. Thus they aim to fight the poverty industry and the problems connected with it. Additionally, a Constitutional Court decision on the appeal on this measure made by a group of senators is awaited since 2017. In this thesis, the problematique is viewed both on policy and politics level, both on national and local level, using the theory of the policy process, agenda setting, and the multiple streams theory. Under examination are also the levels of discourses and framing of the problem. To demonstrate a local context, there was chosen the case of the Kladno municipality, which holds a specific position in the context since it is the first city in the Czech Republic that decided to declare this general provision on its entire territory. However, later the decision was annulled by the regional administration. The research was based mainly on documents survey, media...
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A Donkey's Worth in South Africa: Domestic Laborer or Export Product; Socioeconomic impacts of China's skin trade on South African donkey owners
Binda, Kristen ; Kváča, Vladimír (advisor) ; Verner, Vladimír (referee)
Kristen Binda A Donkey's Worth in South Africa: Domestic Laborer or Export Product; Socioeconomic impacts of China's skin trade on South African donkey owners Master Thesis Prague 2019 Abstract Within South Africa, rural communities use working animals instead of, or combined with mechanization for farming and chores. Development progress may have evaded these areas yet impacts them through globalization and China's expanded market power. The burgeoning market for ejiao, a popular Traditional Chinese Medicine made from boiling donkey hides is a growing issue. Wealthier Chinese consumers, a stalled South African rural population who missed development's benefits plus increasing economic and political engagements between the two countries allows a monopolized, and often exploitative market for donkeys. Politicians are eager to partner with Chinese ejiao retailers despite resulting decimation of donkey populations in some areas of Africa and destruction of livelihoods. I evaluate the value of donkeys as domestic laborers within South Africa along with how China's rapidly expanding market for ejiao and simultaneous consumption of donkeys has affected South Africa to answer in which context donkeys are more valuable. Interview responses and cost-benefit analyses are used to answer the research question and...
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Implementation of the SDGs to the Czech Republic - identification of priorities in terms of the Sustainable Development Goals
Černá, Karolína ; Kopečný, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kváča, Vladimír (referee)
The master thesis focuses on the process of implementation of global strategies to the national policy of the Czech Republic. The thesis is a case study. Its subject is global strategy the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Czech strategic framework Czech Republic 2030. The first part of the thesis presents current knowledge of the sustainable development and dealing with global strategies in this field in the Czech Republic. The theoretical background of the own research is a theory of politics network and a theory of global governance. The aim of the thesis is not only to describe and explain the process of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to the Czech national policy, but also to define roles of groups of actors and to evaluate the participatory approach which was newly chosen for the Czech Republic 2030. The second part of the thesis is focused on the own research which was based on the analysis of relevant documents and semi-structured interviews with eleven experts (representatives of the Public administration, private sector, trade union, academic community and NGOs). One of the main contributions of this thesis is a comparison of the process of creating the Czech strategic framework for sustainable development from 2010 and the new system that was...
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Happening in public space and its influence on public policy. Case: Loaf bathing season in Smíchov.
Patrná, Andrea ; Kokeš, Richard (advisor) ; Kváča, Vladimír (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on one of the forms of creative activism in the public space - happening, its ability to change public policy and to highlight problems in society. The main line of this work was to determine the mechanisms and in which stage of the public policy cycle was political process influenced by Happening " Loafbathing season in Smichov". Another goal was to find out how Happening addressed the participants and which subjects were targeted. Theoretical support for the achievement of the objectives of the thesis was the phase model of the public policy cycle, which works with the idea of politics as a system of several partial processes. The objectives of the thesis were achieved by qualitative research under the auspices of a case study, ie intensive investigation of one case. The main source of data in this case was in-depth semi-structured interviews with the four types of actors, which showed in this particular case that the main mechanisms that influenced the public policy process at the stage of public policy implementation were media and The public, both mechanisms interact each other.
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The coexistence of two academic educational programs within one institution
Buřičová, Barbora ; Mouralová, Magdalena (advisor) ; Kváča, Vladimír (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the characteristics of the coexistence of two different school educational programs within one elementary school. In this very largely neglected topic, attention is paid primarily to the differences between the programs, pedagogical cooperation across the programs and benefits, and the pitfalls of this coexistence. The issue is viewed from the point of view of describing the roles and exercising the functions of educational policy actors - namely directors and teachers. The most important part of the thesis is a comparative multi-case study, in which the thesis describes and analyzes the functioning of two primary schools, where a classical program with innovative elements works together with the Montessori program. The work concludes that the most important factors of the coexistence of the two programs at one school is the way of school management and the circumstances of the emergence of the second program at school.
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Concept of Moral Panic in the Case Study of Inclusive Education
Vlčková, Adéla ; Mouralová, Magdalena (advisor) ; Kváča, Vladimír (referee)
The work deals with the media image of inclusive education which is examined through the prism of sociological concept of moral panic. It focuses on the transformation of media interest in inclusive education and changing of the representation of moral panic attributes in the most widely read daily press such as Blesk, MF Dnes, Právo and Lidové noviny from 2000 to 2017. The work arises from the concept of moral panic which respects the importace of the mass media and it takes into consideration the beliefs directed against certain social groups that are perceived as being at risk to society. The theoretical part defines theoretical grounds such as the power of the media and the characteristics of inclusive education and its legislation. The practical part describes implementation of the research which is realized through a content analysis. The work brings insight into the inconsistent interest of various newspapers. This involves certain contextual milestones in the process of developing the media image of inclusion which is researched through the sociological concept. The results are concluded with the discussion about the possible implications of moral panic for society and educational policy.
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