|
|
Zionist without Zeal: Imagination and Performance of Transnational Belonging
Pokorná, Anna ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Halbich, Marek (referee) ; Szaló, Csaba (referee)
This dissertation based on a fieldwork conducted among Czech Jewish youth during a ten-days educational touristic program Taglit-Birthright explores production of transnational space of mutual belonging. The transnational belonging to Jewish collective is produced through particular physical space of Israel through practice of tourism in collective constructed by the programme as a collective of common origin based on "blood ties". I examine participants' tourist bodily experience, performances, emotions and attitudes as a site of production and reproduction of transnational space using a concept of embodiment as ways in which the individual grasps the world around him/her and makes sense of it in ways that engage both body and mind. Transnational space created throughout the programme becomes socially constructed emotional category of "ahavat Israel", "love for Israel" that might conceal its political implications. Keywords: Transnationalism, diaspora, tourism, embodiment, Jewish youth, Taglit-Birthright, Czech Republic, Israel
|
|
|
Gastronauts of Eastern Europe: Experiencing and Digesting Luxury Gastronomy in the Czech Republic
Hajdáková, Iveta ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (advisor) ; Balon, Jan (referee) ; Eyal, Gil (referee)
This dissertation is based on a research of luxury gastronomy conducted in two luxury restaurants in Prague. The main focus of analysis is on gastronomic experience as an affective commodity and a vehicle of social, economic and political transformation. The study examines how affect is produced, commodified and how value is generated in luxury "experiential gastronomy." It also analyzes the role of affect in transformation of individuals, the society, consumption practices, entrepreneurial practices, and labor. It shows how experts on gastronomy educate the public on appropriate consumption practices and eating habits. Eating and dining serve as "technologies of the self" (Rose 2004) through which individual and social health and well-being are achieved. Cultivated affect becomes a vehicle of the "purification from socialism" (Eyal 2003) and also plays an important part on the formation of ethical consumer and citizen (Muehlebach 2011). Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
|
|
|
Methods and principles of self-reflection and personal development
Skuhrovcová, Alena ; Valenta, Josef (advisor) ; Koťa, Jaroslav (referee)
(in English): The thesis deals with the topic of perception of one's own body and it's connection to selfreflection - especially sensation of one's own personality, in the context of school education. The thesis is an overview study, introducing the so-called education of embodiment. In the second part, the thesis describes main principles of embodied learning and their importance for self-reflection. The thesis utilizes the method of art based research, which confirms the importance of embodied learning for personal development and describes principles, methods and approaches, that allow to implement embodied learning. The thesis is a contribution to the real educational practice in the topic of personal development as a cross- curricular theme personal and social development.
|
|
|
Selected aspects of the production of embodiment in tv commercials
Kurucová, Natálie ; Charvát, Martin (advisor) ; Řehořová, Irena (referee)
Thesis Selected aspects of the production of embodiment in tv commercials works with an assumption that some tv commercials represent specific modality of discursive mechanisms of sexual representation. This thesis applies the works of M. Foucault and P. Bourdieu to semiotic analysis of chosen advertisements. Assuming that advertisements are using body and sexual motives as one of the instruments of power to affect the target groups. Main focus of this thesis is in introduction of discursive models that are used in advertising. Goal of the theoretical part is to introduce philosophical and sociological ideas and theories relating to perception of physicality, sexuality, power relations and question of subjectivism. The thesis also shows how the role of a body was perceived in different historicals eras and how the ways of use of body and embodiment has gradually developed in terms of power affection. Goal of the practical part is to analyze and interpret the acknowledgments from theoretical part on concrete examples. The aim is, by using semiotical analysis, to reveal discursive practices in advertisements based upon used statements, also to analyze the power affection presented by physicality and sexuality. The thesis presents examples of power affection of advertisements and its specific...
|
|
|
Pornography as the agent of technological change : the transformation of perception of embodiment and privacy
Vaněček, Matěj ; Šisler, Vít (advisor) ; Očko, Petr (referee)
The aim of this rigorosum thesis is to explore the relationship between pornography and new technologies. The influence of this relationship on perception of embodiment and privacy is also discussed. The thesis describes technologies and related procedures which came into contact with pornographic content at an early stage of their existence and has been affected by this specific segment of the market. This paper also examines aspects of these effects and focuses on the related penetration of these technologies among the general public. It also reflects the possible impacts on individuals and whole society. The thesis is divided into four main chapters. The first chapter focuses on videocassette recorders, i.e. a technology that was affected by pornography in the past. The second chapter summarizes the impact of pornography on the Internet, which represents the technology we encounter every day, and which is often an integral part of our lives. The third chapter outlines the possible future development of relationship between pornography and new technologies, while it also analyzes the driving forces of the influence of pornography. The final chapter reflects changes in the perception of embodiment and privacy in a society that was brought by the pornography and related technologies. Powered by TCPDF...
|
|
| |
|
|
Pornography as the agent of technological change : the transformation of perception of embodiment and privacy
Vaněček, Matěj ; Šisler, Vít (referee) ; Očko, Petr (referee)
The aim of this rigorosum thesis is the relationship between pornography and new technologies. The influence of this relationship on perception of embodiment and privacy is also disscussed. The thesis describes the technologies and related procedures which came into contact with pornographic content at an early stage of their existence and has been affected by this specific segment of the market. This paper also examines the aspects of these effects and focuses on the related penetration of these technologies among the general public. It also reflects the possible impacts on individuals and whole human society. The thesis is divided into four main chapters. The first chapter focuses on videocassette recorders, a technology that has been affected by pornography in past. The second chapter summarizes the impact of pornography on the Internet, which represents the technology we encounter every day, and is often an integral part of our lives. The third chapter outlines the possible future development of relationship between pornography and new technologies, while analyzes the driving forces of the influence of pornography. The final chapter reflects changes in the perception of embodiment and privacy in a society that was brought by the pornography and related technologies. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
|
|
|
A commented translation: Robots that enjoy discovering
Nováková, Petra ; Svoboda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Drahotová, Markéta (referee)
The aim of the submitted bachelor's thesis is to translate the article Roboter mit Entdeckerlust by Ralf Der and Nihat Ay and to comment the translation. The commentary is divided into four parts. The first part is a translation analysis based on the model of Christiane Nord. The next part focuses on a description of the used translation methods. The third part consists of a typology of translation problems, that occured in the translation process, and examples of their solutions. The commentary is concluded by a typology of translation shifts.
|
|
|
The Space of Prayer - Ethnography of a Monastic Community
Horská, Kateřina ; Zandlová, Markéta (advisor) ; Spalová, Barbora (referee)
The presented work deals with certain aspects of catholic monastic life; it has been elaborated on the basis of a field research carried out in a female monastic community of an active order in the Czech Republic. In the work, I focus primarily on the topic of prayer and I am trying to answer the following questions: what is the nuns' attitude towards prayer like, which activities we can consider a prayer in the monastic community and what is the influence of these activities on actors in this setting? On theoretical level, the thesis is based especially on the concept of total institutions by E. Goffman and on Pierre Bourdieu's conception of habitus. The text consists of four major parts. In the first, introductory part I describe methodological and ethical issues relevant to my research. In the second part, I concern myself briefly with monastic life in general, its origins and development, and also with stages of monastic life of an individual. The following empirical part based on ethnographic data from my field notes is presented as a description of "a common day" in the monastic community. The last part is theoretical and analytical at the same time; here I deal with the main topic of the thesis. Firstly, I present Goffman's concept of total institutions and I explain how according to this...
|
|
|
The Concept of the End of Art History and the Theory of Arthur C. Danto
Drexlerová, Eva ; Rakušanová, Marie (advisor) ; Konečný, Lubomír (referee)
The aim of this essay is to give a critical examination of Arthur C. Danto's art theory. In order to present a comprehensive exploration, the thesis deals with both Danto's philosophy of art and philosophy of the history of art. Within this discourse it aspires to evaluate Danto's end of art thesis and its appropriateness. In the first part, Danto's idea of the artworld, that is his contextual and historical theory of art, is examined. This includes the exploration of historical circumstances within which his art definition was developed, the notion of his essentialist and historic approach, and main features of his well-known technique of comparing indiscernible counterparts. The second part is devoted to Danto's philosophy of the history of art, especially to his Hegelian turn and what of such shift further stems. The third part explores the end of art thesis itself and, as its consequence, the posthistorical condition of art. The final part consists of two sections that attemp to critically evaluate both Danto's art definition and his end of art thesis. Finally, some arguments why Danto's theory about the end of art might be considered as inconclusive and speculative are conferred.
|
guest ::
