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A dark period? Or what today we show to the foreign tourist from communism, what we tell them and what we leave for ourselves.
Zýková, Iva-Hedvika ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
Annotation: The presented Diploma thesis deals with the ways in witch is today, more than twenty years after the "Velvet Revolution", communist period presented to foreing tourists in Prague and in the sector of mass tourism.. It is based on my field research that took place in the Museum of Communism, during the especially on communism oriented guided tours and but rather commplementary, in the Propaganda pub and also on the semi-structured formal and informal interviews with guides. The thesis focuses on the differences in the presentation of communism in different generations of guides, it monitors how their personal, or, conversely, indirect or mediated experience affects their references. My work is observes communism not only as marketing tourism product, but using the concepts of social memory I try to point to range of different individual memories based on everyday experiences. These small personal histories of everyday life complement established, or rather the one that is still being instituted. The thesis also monitors and reflets some possible adjustments and transformations of social memory and outline what could be the motivation for these changes. Keywords: Mass tourism; communism; social memory; identity; places of memory - "les lieux de mémoire".
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Islam in The United States
Hlaváčová, Simona ; Gombár, Eduard (referee) ; Kropáček, Luboš (advisor)
The purpose behind this research was to explore the ideological transformation and organizational development of two of the main Islamic groups in the USA - the political Islam (also called Islamisrn!Islamic movement) brought to the country by immigrants and the homegrown Islamic movement of African-American Islam. It also aimed to shed some light on the contacts and support that Islamic organizations in the US enjoy abroad and the roles played by intemational Islamic organizations in the growth ofthe Islamic presence in the USinstitution building and development of the Islamic infrastructure (mosques, Islamic center, schools).
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The People's Movement of Ukraine and its Role in Ukrainian Developments
Stepanyuk, Viktoria ; Zilynskyj, Bohdan (advisor) ; Kubát, Michal (referee)
This thesis deals with the People's Movement of Ukraine (Narodnyi rukh Ukrainy) in 1990-1998. This phenomenon is closely related to the problem of the Soviet Union demise, the anti-Communist movements, free elections, and emergence of a multiparty system in Ukraine. The first part of the thesis starts with a short introduction and review of literature. Then the author proceeds to the description of socio-political and economic situation in Ukraine during the last decades of the Soviet system and to the beginning of the People's Movement. The Movement was launched by a number of members of the intelligentsia previously imprisoned in the 1980s. The thesis focuses on the movement's ideology which was considered too nationalistic by many critics. Hence, a brief introduction to the history of Ukrainian nationalism is provided. The second part of the thesis analyzes the early success of the People's Movement following the 1990 parliamentary elections. Further, the author discusses transformation of the People's movement into a political party. The thesis identifies main factors that contributed to the crisis and, later on, to the break up of the People's Movement political party. The role of the Movement in Ukrainian politics is elaborated in subsequent chapters. The thesis also provides a brief overview of...
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Analysis of Czech exports to markets outside the EU
Vinter, Michal ; Gráf, Václav (advisor) ; Urban, Luděk (referee)
Throughout the transformation process during 1990's has the Czech Republic undergo many important changes. One of these was the temporary abandonment of Eastern European markets and the rapid growth in export share of EU markets. With the passing of time, however, the interest of Czech exporters turned once again towards the emerging markets. This paper presents a theoretical framework that affect trade between the Czech Republic and non-EU countries and uses analytical tools to estimate their specific manifestations in czech exports. Used concept of macroeconomic competitiveness and gravity model of international trade shows that price competitiveness of czech exports still provides the relative advantage, but on the other is the potential of exports bound by the quality of institutions. The model show that the specific demand factors used in this study eg. the impact of historical business partnerships and the degree of development of importing countries are significant. When comparing the actual export values with the values predicted by model, we observe that, on average, Czech exports to the analyzed countries is above its potential.
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NGOs in the cultural life of town Louny
Pelc, Martin ; Žák, Josef (advisor) ; Matějů, Martin (referee)
This paper focuses on a niche of local culture represented by non-governmental non-profit organisations (associations). The objective is to identify and analyse their part in the cultural life of the city during the 20 th century on the basis of theoretical assumptions. The backbone of the paper is the finding of how the transformations of the structure and role of association life influenced the social and mainly the cultural life of the town Louny. I attempted to identify, track, and interpret this phenomenon wi thin the various periods of time between 1918 and 2000. I chose this time span intentionally, for within this relatively short time frame, our country underwent several politically, economically, socially, and culturally distinct periods. My scope of interest covers the period between the World Wars marked with very intensive association life, the role of associations during the Protectorate period (Sokol, Junak), the conflicting developments between 1945 and 1968, the destruction of cultural life during the Normalisation period, and the renewed boom in the democratic society after 1989. Each period has its specificities and it is of interest to present the changes occurring in the local context, as the various entities are much more comprehensible on the local scale than if observed from a...
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Spa in the Czech Republic. With a focus on spa Jeseník, Luhačovice, Třeboň and Františkovy Lázně
Němčík, Lukáš ; Duffková, Jana (advisor) ; Jandová, Dobroslava (referee)
Spa in the Czech Republic With a focus on spa Jeseník, Luhačovice, Třeboň and Františkovy Lázně As the subject of my work I chose the Czech Republic spa. I look at the spa environment as a social phenomenon that affects many areas of social life and has a great tradition in Czech culture. With its unique atmosphere and the composition of the clients who visit them, they are more than just popular places by tourists or health facilities but they have also influence on the life of the living there and spa visitors. The work is intended to serve as a general base that could be suitable for further exploration of this area, and therefore tries to cover as many areas of the issue as possible. I try to work with examples from history to point out the role of the spa in the past and how they gradually transformed into what they are today. I also look at services that are offered at the spa and the structure of clients who come to the spa. My field of interest was also the formation of spa towns and life in them. This area is distinguished from others for a large number of changing spa clients. In my work I also did a probe between clients and employees of spa Jeseník, Luhačovice, Třeboň and Františkovy Lázně. With it, I was able to outline some of the differences between the various spas. Spas in the...
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Analysis of the work of Romain Gary
Dědinová, Lenka ; Ébert-Zeminová, Catherine (advisor) ; Listíková, Renáta (referee)
Title of the thesis: Analysis of the work of Romain Gary Keywords: dialogue, motiv of meeting, morality of relationship, identity, crisis of identity, alienation, symbology, "unspeakableness" (impossibility to expresse an experience having an intime or an extreme character), novel, figure of "the third", Jewry Abstract: The principal objective of this thesis is to show the ideological relationship between the ideas of Romain Gary, the french writer of Russian origin, and the philosophy of dialogue, that was founded by Martin Buber and elaborated by Emmanuel Lévinas. We want to reach this aim on the one side through the interpretation and the confrontation of the several philosophical thoughts and on the other side through the analysis of the novel work. This thesis is separated into four main chapters. In the first head we try to approach the effect of the economic development and the all-society transformation, that France passed through at the turn of the 19th and 20th century and especially after the First World War, that it had on the cultural life and the philosophical atmosphere. In the second head we want to define the basic thesis of the philosophy of the dialogue. The third part is dedicated to familiarization with the personality of Romain Gary and his publication. And the last part belongs to the...
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Control Machete: contemporary Mexican music in its social context
Straková, Zita ; Křížová, Markéta (advisor) ; Binková, Simona (referee)
This thesis introduces an analysis of production of the music group Control Machete which belonged to a broader music stream called A vanzada Regia in the nineties of the twentieth century in the city of Monterrey. The production of Control Machete reflects two music genres: rock and hiphop. First chapter summarizes the historical development of rock in Mexico; the differences in comparison to the historic situation in the us are indicated as the genre was overtaken from the us cultural scene. Rock history of both countries is drawn from the social and political point of view. Second chapter contains a historical overview as well: it summarizes the specific features of the style, its relation to the social environment and its historical transformations. Last chapter contains the analysis of the verbal production of Control Machete: reflected influences are studied as well as the expressed social conditions of the production.
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Minangkabau culture in the mirror of randai theatre plays
Pflegerová, Mariana ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (referee)
The dissertation thesis is focused on the culture of the ethnic group Minangkabau, whose home territory is situated in the present-day Indonesian province of West Sumatra, yet whose diaspora, reaching its highest density in the islands of Sumatra and Java, recently covers the whole of the Indonesian archipelago, overlapping to the neighbouring countries of Malaysia, Singapore, and beyond. In the thesis, Minangkabau culture is viewed through the looking glass of the Minang folk theatre randai, which traces its origins to the iniciation of young Minang males, yet which has with time transformed into an important means of symbolic expression of the Minang identity. Selected randai plays recorded by the author in their authentic social context are used to provide examples for the explanation of some of the key concepts that form the core of Minang culture, while socio-historical conditions are considered for the influence they have had upon the shaping of these concepts to their present form. Topics that are subject to explanation include the following: the social position and the key social roles performed by women in the context of a system of social organization based on the principals of matrilineal kinship, relative to the position and roles of men; basic principals of Minang ethnopsychology as source of...
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Aesthetic Transformation of Social Environment Mediated by Electronic Media
Šimonová, Jitka ; Řehořová, Irena (advisor) ; Šafaříková, Radana (referee)
Diploma thesis "Aesthetic change of social environment mediated through electronic media" deals with the influence of electronic culture on our ways of perception and examines the social and cultural changes related to the use of information and communication technologies. The suppositon of the thesis is the influence of information and communication technologies on human senses and perception and the fact that their penetration into our society and our environment results in a new form of culture. The work focuses on the way in which the technologies and electronic devices are used in our everyday lives and it captures the design as an instrument for human-computer interaction. The subject of the diploma thesis is observed through the prism of aesthetics which represents a new theoretical concept for using technologies in our lives. The aim of the diploma thesis is to prove that the aesthetisation of information and of our environment influences the way we perceive and think as well as it shapes our mental picture of this world.
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