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Tendency of national development of town Košice in the years 1945-1947
Fottová, Jana ; Pejša, Robert (advisor) ; Šutaj, Štefan (referee)
FOTTOVÁ, Jana. Tendency of national evolution of town Košice in the years 1945 - 1947 [bachelor thesis]. Charles University in Prague. Faculty of Arts. Department of Central European Studies. Supervisor: Mgr. Robert Pejša, Ph.D. Qualification level: bachelor. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2016. 70 p. Coexistence betweeen national minorities and major population is typical case for our country but even for many other countries since time out of mind. East Slovakia and its biggest town Košice are characterized by this mentioned phenomenom. Topic about solution of national minorities became dominating factor in town Košice and also in the whole country after the Second World War. The Bachelor's thesis consists of four sections. In the first chapter of this Bachelor's thesis we are concerned with history of town Košice since the very beginning until the 20th century and our consideration is focused on national conditions in each periods. The second chapter introduces term reslovakization which was bound to many parts of Slovakia including town Košice. The third part of that thesis constitutes of eviction, resettling and exchange Hungarian and German inhabitants from Slovakia after the Second World War and there is also described analogous situation in view of metropolis of east Slovakia...
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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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Czechoslovak-Hungarian relations in 1945-1948
Kőrösová, Elizabeth ; Kolmanová, Simona (advisor) ; Pejša, Robert (referee)
The main objective of this work is to analyze the Czechoslovak-Hungarian relations in the period 1945-1948, especially in terms of the political and ethnic development in both countries. After the end of the Second World War Czechoslovakia got to the side of the victorious countries, while Hungary found themselves among the defeated states. Hungary, in a reflection of the Czechoslovak policy bore its responsibility for conflicts such as those associated with the Vienna arbitration in 1938, and conflicts associated with belonging to the Hungarian national minority to Czechoslovakia. To the forefront of the Czechoslovak- Hungarian relations has gotten the solution of minority issues which were dealt by Košice government program and by decrees of the President Edvard Beneš. Czechoslovak-Hungarian relations began to become sharper at the bilateral level, and because of other side-effects - involuntary deportation of the Hungarian minority populations, prepared and negotiated exchange of population, transfer to the forced labor on the Czech border, forced reslovakization of Hungarian minority living in Czechoslovakia. The gradual normalization of these relations occured at a bilateral (international) level in the first years of the consolidation of the people's democratic regimes in the context of...
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Muslim minority and its political participation in Czech Republic
Jelínková, Veronika ; Šánová, Lucie (advisor) ; Krausz Hladká, Malvína (referee)
This thesis deals with the topic of the Muslim minority in the Czech Republic and its political participation. In comparison to countries in Western Europe, the Muslim community in the Czech Republic is relatively small. The number of Muslim inhabitants is estimated to 20 000 an according to this number is also corresponding its political participation. The Muslims can be found in the traditional Czech parties in ČSSD and in ODS. This thesis, therefore, deals in the first part with the history and institutionalization of the community which first appeared during the First Czechoslovak Republic, continued during the period of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and then the re-establishing of the community after 1989. The second part of the thesis deals with the political Islam itself and the politically active Muslims in the Czech Republic. Furthermore the main approaches to political Islam according to the main Islamic philosophers of the 20th century will be introduced and a short state of professor Šilhavý will be demonstrated. The conclusion is devoted to a brief media analysis of how the Czech media pictured the Muslims and how the main Czech political parties speak about Muslims and Islam as well.
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The United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child in the case of refugee children
Asfour, Sarah ; Pazlarová, Hana (advisor) ; Matoušek, Oldřich (referee)
This Bachelor thesis addresses the issue of the basic human rights of Refugee Children guaranteed to every child by UN Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted in 1989. The thesis describes the processes and situations in which a Refugee Child who is accompanied by family members or who is an Unaccompanied Minor goes through during the proceeding of International Protection in the European countries. The thesis focuses only on the articles of Convention that are applicable to crucial problems in the current situation of Refugee Children.
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LGBT topics in Czech and international curricular materials
Jírová, Dominika ; Dvořák, Dominik (advisor) ; Straková, Jana (referee)
The paper is a review of contemporary theoretical and curricular approaches to sexual minorities in education. It analyses the curricula documents, the theoretical bases of access to (sexual) minorities in education in the Czech Republic and relevant documents available in English-speaking countries on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender-related (LGBT). Document analysis was performed using the "snowball" method. The aim is to analyse the situation in the Czech Republic and compare it with results from abroad, then there are the proposed recommendations for the curriculum revision. The conclusion brings a list of materials and their contents in the Czech Republic and a comparison with foreign materials written in English. KEYWORDS curriculum analysis, minorities, LBGT, Czech Republic
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Diversity in the newsroom: a journalist, member of an ethnic/national minority, in the czech nationwide media
Matejová, Adéla ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (advisor) ; Wolák, Radim (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with a characteristic of a journalist, who belongs to an ethnic/national minority, in the newsrooms of nationwide media in the Czech Republic. Its aim is to explain, how the minority journalist understand their professional role and what effect their ethnic identity has on their professional self-concept in the newsroom. The work also aims to determine the extent to which the principles of diversity management are applied in the newsrooms and how the management supervisors monitor and evaluate them. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on professionalisation of the profession of journalists, their role and the construction of identity and ethnic identity of minority journalists in the newsroom. The work also represents the elements of diversity management and its application in the newsrooms. In the empirical part of the research by means of analysis of the interviews not only structure and interaction of professional and ethnic identity of the journalists in the Czech media and their tenure at the newspapers, but also a supervisors' point of view and the application of the principles of the diversity management in the area of Czech nationwide media are evaluated. The work covers the printed and audio-visual media. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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External influences on Bulgarian Muslims
Pospíšil, Tomáš ; Pikal, Kamil (advisor) ; Tejchman, Miroslav (referee)
The paper "External influences on Bulgarian Muslims" describes what affects the belief of Pomaks (Bulgarian-speaking Muslims) and Bulgarian Turks; first, the assimilation campaigns during the 20th century, second, the new foreign policy of Turkey and third, the work of charity organizations connected with Saudi Arabia. The objective of this paper is to explain, why the Pomaks lean towards a fundamentalist form of Islam - Wahhabism - in some towns and villages. In order to do that the text describes bulgarization campaigns aimed at the Pomaks and Turks and introduces both of these ethnic groups that together form 13 % of the Bulgarian population. The paper then describes the Turkish influence in the Balkans, especially the work of the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs (the so called Diyanet). The second foreign influence that is described in this text are the activities of Saudi Arabian organizations which are explained at large, including the connection of some of these organizations with terrorists and the ways in which they try to spread the fundamentalist Islam. These three influences are shortly compared. Based on this comparison the text concludes that the Pomaks accept Wahhabism, because they face long term questioning of their ethnic identity and because the political situation in...
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Analysis of the Representation of Sexual Minorities in Marvel Comics
Nohelová, Diana ; Soukup, Martin (advisor) ; Rychlík, Martin (referee)
The topic of this work is the analysis of development of the LGBT minority in Marvel comics. Action, appearance, relations, speech and story-lines of characters are to be used as semiotic resources and analysed using tools of visual studies and social semiotics. Visual anthropology, semiotics and sociology will serve as the main theoretical base. This work aims to identify changes of representation of said minorities in the context of social and cultural changes in American society.
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