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Israeli National Identity in the songs of Naomi Shemer
Kuželová, Mariana ; Sládek, Pavel (advisor) ; Menachem Zoufalá, Marcela (referee)
This thesis aims at describing motives of Israeli national identity, as shown in lyrics of Israeli lyricist and composer No'omi Shemer (1930-2004) in her songs written until 1967. The first chapter presents history of Hebrew ideological songs from the end of 19th century to 1960's. The second chapter examines biographical events and political events of No'omi Shemer that are relevant for understanding of her writings. Next, methods and analyses of Shemer's lyrics by Michael Gadish, which to certain extent influenced this thesis, are explained. In this chapter, the relationship between No'omi Shemer's writings and Israeli national identity of her time is also shown. The last chapter focuses on the most prevalent motives of Shemer's lyrics, namely, the Biblical motives, the motive of a soldier and the motive of building. Each motive is presented in a subchapter, which demonstrates how Shemer dealt with them. The thesis contains visual attachments as evidence of the said motives being relevant to Israeli culture of Shemer's time. In the conclusion, the thesis seeks to examine reasons for the said motives being prominent in Israeli culture and national identity of the period.
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Folk dance in national identity's construction: dance groups in Sarajevo during war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the years 1992 - 1995
Grossová, Veronika ; Hofmeisterová, Karin (advisor) ; Žíla, Ondřej (referee)
The bachelor thesis examines the Cultural Art Societies and more precisely amateur folklore dance groups in Yugoslavia between 1945 - 1992 and in besieged Sarajevo during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author comprehend the folklore dance as one of the tools used for creating the national identities during the period of the modern European states' construction. Within strengthening specific national identity, also the folklore dances were used for consolidating the political power and legitimization of the regime during the 20. century. The idea of the Yugoslavian worker self - management, which had been practised since the 1950s, spread to the cultural agenda as well. Workers groups were establishing the amateurs' artistic organizations, which maintained the cultural heritage - songs, dances and plays. The purpose of these organizations was to spread the Yugoslavian identity and to support a narrative about brotherhood and unity of all the Yugoslavian's nations. Along with the economic problems, the nationalistic tensions occurred in the 1980s and it caused the break-up of Yugoslavia induced by a series of wars. The three most numerous ethnics - Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats fought against each other, and the traditional multi-ethnic capital was not spared of conflict. The aim of bachelor...
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How Does One Become a True Italian? The Struggle of Second Generation Immigrants to Change the Italian Citizenship Law.
Fejerová, Eva ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Mejstřík, Martin (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to examine the phenomenon of second-generation immigrant associations in Italy and focuses on their efforts to change the 1992 Citizenship Law between 2005 and 2014. The goal of the thesis is to determine whether the style of their argumentation is nationalistic or multicultural. The nationalistic style would point to their identification with Italy as a classical nation state, reflecting an acceptance of Italy's autostereotypes. The multicultural argumentation style would show that their primary frame of reference is the culture of their parents' country of origin and reflect a desire to see Italian society transformed according to multicultural principles, where all cultures are equally respected and esteemed. Christian Joppke's theory of three-dimensional citizenship (status, rights, identity) serves as an instrument for research. Anne-Marie Thiesse's national identity checklist serves as a guideline for distinguishing between nationalistic and post-nationalistic argumentation style. The analysis shows that the dimension these associations refer to the most is identity, which they use to prove their "Italianicity." They conduct their argumentation in a very classical nationalistic style, using themes such as Italian language, national territory, and national cuisine....
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Queen Elizabeth II as a symbol of British national identity from 1997 to 2017
Bartoňová, Kristýna ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
Britská panovnice Alžběta II. je nedílnou součástí britské národní identity, a to dle odborných názorů i dle oficiálních stránek britské vlády. Ovšem způsob, kterým se podílí na udržování britské identity není dostatečně popsán. Proto se tato bakalářská pr panovnice Alžběty II. v udržováním britské národní identity. Analyzuje, zda a jakým způsobem se panovnice podílí na udržování britské národní identity. Nejprve rozebírá přibližuje složitost tohoto pojmu a směry, kterými lze národní identitě přistupovat. Pokračuje definicí britské identity. Dále, na základě odborných studií a názorů, stejně jako na základě názorů britských žurnalistů a obyvatel představuje hlavní oblasti a složky britské národní identity. Tímto způsobem stanovuje oblasti, ve kterých by se panovnice měla při udržování národní identity pohybovat. Těmito oblastmi jsou politicko ideologická identita národa, kulturní identita a společná historie a paměť. V , zda je panovnice Alžběta těchto oblastech činná a jakým způsobem udržuje a posiluje jednotlivé složky identity. Analyzuje, jakým způsobem panovnice reálně o tuto identitu pečuje. Jsou monitorovány jednotlivé události, kterých se panovnice účastní, jednotlivé proslovy a styl jakým je Spojené království prezentováno na charitativní činnost. Díky poznatkům z analýzy královniných činností je v...
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Vitality of the current Galician language
Picková, Lenka ; Čermák, Petr (advisor) ; Zavadil, Bohumil (referee) ; Valeš, Miroslav (referee)
Mgr. Lenka Picková Vitality of the current Galician language Abstract: Never in the field of human history has the dying out of languages been as intense as it is in the present day. The goal of this paper is to assess the vitality of the one of the co- official languages in Spain, the Galician language. After an indispensable definition of the social-historical context, a deep, qualitative and quantitative analysis of nine factors is performed: inter-generational language transmission, education, the absolute and relative number of speakers, trends in existing language domains and media, governmental and institutional language attitudes, and, above all, the attitudes of Galician citizens toward their languages. In the final chapter, a summary of the results of these individual factors, as well as an assessment of their influence on the vitality of the Galician language, is provided. Key words: endangered languages, assessment of language vitality, Galician, language attitudes, minority languages, diglossia, languages in contact, national identity, speaker's attitudes.
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Forms of Neo-Ottomanism Policy on the Example of Turkish Communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
Blinka, Jakub ; Jelen, Libor (advisor) ; Žíla, Ondřej (referee)
This diploma project focuses on the Turkish minority in Kosovo, especially its role in current Kosovar-Turkish relations. The work examines the perception of Turkish engagement in Kosovo among members of this community and their affiliation with the state of Kosovo. In addition, the work will be related to the author's previous research of the Turkish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The work is divided into several parts, first it is pays attention to the theoretical framework of the Turkish foreign policy of strategic depth, so-called Neo- Ottomanism and then to the theoretical basis of nation, nationalism and identity. Furthermore, the historical and current relations between Turkey and Kosovo will be presented and it will be supplemented by basic informations about the Turkish minority of Kosovo. The main part of this work is a chapter devoted to the analysis of data from a fieldwork, which was conducted in two Kosovar localities (Mamusha and Prizen) in 2019. The results of this analysis are compared with Bosnian conclusions from 2017, based on which the Turkish strategy towards these Balkan countries will be evaluated. Key words: Neo-Ottomanism, Kosovo, Turkish Minority, National Identity
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Mýtus hebrejského moře: jeden s aspektů sionismu Zeeva Žabotinského
Coman, Adam ; Marková, Alena (advisor) ; Barša, Pavel (referee) ; Wein, Martin (referee)
The following dissertation studies the idea and mythologization of the "Hebrew Sea" in the writings and political activity of Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. Jabotinsky (1880-1940), the leader of the Zionist Revisionist movement, developed the concept of the "Hebrew Sea" as an ideal that was used in various fields of his Zionist activity. Within inter-Zionist politics it was utilized as a means of competing with the dominant ideological faction, labor Zionism, over contribution to the national revival and Zionist youth, and its greatest achievement was the establishment of the Civitavecchia Naval Academy in Italy. On the international-diplomatic level the "Hebrew Sea" was used in order to advance closer political relations between Revisionism and Italy - an endeavor Jabotinsky was interested in from an early stage of his Zionist career. The "Hebrew Sea" also played an important role in the development of Jabotinsky's unique ideal of national identity, which sought to depict the Jewish people as a Mediterranean, and not a desert or Middle Eastern people. This vision drew from contemporary theories about Hebrew identity, which associated the Hebrews with the Phoenician empire and not necessarily with Jewish monotheism. Finally, economically this ideal supported the socioeconomic vision of Revisionism,...
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The conceptions of National Identity in Hungary and Finland in the context of the European Union.
Zaitsev, Dan Aaron Alexander ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Ciuta, Felix (referee) ; Juhászová, Tereza (referee)
1. Abstract The European Union has transformed enormously during the last three of decades from a purely economic institution to a political project which has generated a strong nationalist backlash from several countries, especially in post-Soviet nations, such as Hungary that gained independence not long ago in 1991. However, such signs of Euroscepticism were apparent also elsewhere in Europe, including in Finland where a resurgence of nationalism happened in the form of populist parties and increased Euroscepticism among traditional conservative segments of society. This thesis will examine these phenomena through a historical analysis of Hungary and Finland with the aim of examining and highlighting important features in their national identities that are seen to be triggered through various developments in the context of the European Union, such as the 2008 Financial Crisis, the 2015 refugee crisis and other types of change that has occurred in the enlargement process of the political union that the EU is striving to further. Such developments will be discussed using a theoretical framework of nationalism and through examining different features of a nation, specifically through the ideas of Johann Gottfried Herder, Anthony Smith, and Hans Kohn among others. Hungary and Finland were chosen due to...
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Redefining the Identity of Slovenia after 1989
Fišar, Jan ; Šístek, František (advisor) ; Žíla, Ondřej (referee)
National identity is an important part of not only newly created state's identification and is reflected also in its foreign policy. This diploma thesis deals with the external (re)construction of Slovenian national identity within a political discourse since 1991, when Slovenia gained its independence till 2004, when it was integrated into the EU. The subjects of interest are addresses and texts of the country's top political officials, presidents, prime ministers and ministers of foregin affairs, who were involved in a presentation of the country abroad, and documents of foregin policy. The main aim of the thesis is to answer the question how the Slovenian national identity was being constructed on the outside and what was the goal of this conctruction using the Critical discourse analysis of mentioned sources. At the beginning of 1990s Slovenes gained for the first time in history their independent state and they had to cope with many problems such as their long-standing Yugoslavian history and existence as a part of the Eastern Bloc, geographical location on the crossroad of European regions or its immediate neighbourhood of the disturbed and negatively perceived Balkans. The general agreement of the political landscape on the country's future was one of the main advantages. Tools and goals of...
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