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State transformation in postcolonial Mozambique
Jelínek, Petr ; Kropáček, Luboš (advisor) ; Kandert, Josef (referee) ; Fiala, Vlastimil (referee)
The case of "State Transformation in Postcolonial Mozambique" is set into the context of African postcolonial state research in the introductory part of the thesis. The concepts of africanists Mahmood Mamdani, Patrick Chabal and Jean François Bayart are presented and used as an conceptual framework for the analysis of the postcolonial state in Mozambique. The origin and development of the postcolonial state in Mozambique is analysed in the wider historical context. The pre-colonial political systems in Mozambique are presented, as well as the first contacts between the pre-colonial Mozambique and the Portuguese and the establishment of the Portuguese presence. The description of the formation and consolidation of the colonial state includes the issue of colonial border demarcation, conquest of the territory and establishment of the colonial administration. The Mozambican independence struggle is analysed as well as its impact on the colonial administration. The development of the leading force of the struggle, the FRELIMO party, is analysed including its origin in the union of three nationalist movements, its internal disputes and divisions and its gradual radicalisation. The creation of the postcolonial state in Mozambique is described and the constitution of the People's Republic of Mozambique of 1975,...
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Attitudes towards Death and Last Rites in Contemporary Czech Society
Nešporová, Olga ; Kandert, Josef (advisor) ; Havelka, Miloš (referee) ; Chlup, Radek (referee)
This doctoral thesis aims to map the contemporary Czech society approach to the death. It particularly examines two issue areas which are both independent and interrelated: 1) the contemporary notions of death and the afterlife, 2) the funeral customs and the contemporary attitudes to them, considering the qualitative sociological research (responding 30 unbelievers and 28 believers - the members of 4 different religious groups) as compared to the national quantitative research the Detraditionalization and Individualization of Religion in the Czech Republic.
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To begin again it is my destiny
Hroudová, Anna ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Kandert, Josef (referee)
RESUME My intention was to foreshadow the construct of the re-émigré's self perception/self depiction as a way of setting up a framework within which each individual operates. Based on analysis of interviews with individual re-émigrés, I attempted to establish individual identifying categories which gave rise to such a framework. The central interest of the study was the analysis the act of the re-emigration, the return home, the return to motherland. Nevertheless, the act of return exists as a direct consequence of many earlier life (changing) (dominant) events, including the emigration itself. I considered it essential to make such events an integral part of my investigation (study). In this context, I have considered it essential to interrogate the act of 'homecoming'with the initial act of emigration, of going to exile, of the 'escape'. The testimonies of individual respondents indicated most clearly the key/central role played by the family and its influence, not just on the émigré him/herself, but in the wider context of family background,(cultural)roots, familial orientations, customs and conventions. The family was the one constant category which runs through the entire life cycle, forming the foundation of the individual's social situations and essentially underpins their context. The further...
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The reemigration of the Czech minority from Daruvar region (Croatia) after the Second World War in the light of their life stories.
Pelikánová, Hana ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Kandert, Josef (referee)
In my thesis I am dealing with the subject of the afterwar reemigration of Czech from Daruvar region (Croatia), the center of Czech minority in the Northern Balcan which was enjoying a flourishing cultural and economical growth in the interwar period. After WWII many of the settlers decided to return to their old homeland in the process of the so-called reemigration which had to compensate for the forced departure of the expelled German minority from the Czech lands. In my thesis I have recorded life-story interviews with expatriates from Daruvar region and I am focusing on several issues in connection with these events. First of all, I am trying to reconstruct the circurmstances, motivation and the course of the reemigration transfers. Secondly, I am also dealing with the topic of the integration of expatriates in the society which had undergone thorough socioeconomical changes after the WWII. Finally, I am analysing the individual evaluations of this life experience and the positive and negative consequences it brought to the expatriates and their families.
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Golf - is it posh or for all?
Šperl, Martin ; Kandert, Josef (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
Playing golf became a part of lifestyle of new dominant social and cultural groups but thanks to democratization tendencies and use as a business tool it opens up for more wide range of Czech society. Simultaneously the sporty heritors of golf tradition from the past before November 1989 last till today creating a core of Czech golfers space and teach newcomers the secrets of golf rules and etiquette. There are various groups in Czech golf space which differ from each other in the spirit of game, costs, but also in form of capital acquired. The first group is the mentioned one with long golf heredity. These players are holders of ideas in sense of golf rules, etiquette and skills. It was mainly social capital witch they obtained in golf space before November 1989 in their connections to golf community, nowadays it is according to their skills and traditional club membership symbolic capital. Together with this group it was a then power and wealth elite who started golf playing before November 1989. What its members drew from this activity was a symbolic capital when using golf playing as a demonstration of their wealth while nowadays it is mainly social capital which they can use. Newcomers into golf environment are mainly top executive managers and businessmen encountering golf as a part of...
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Lifestyle of residents in condominium in central city: They live elsewhere, work at the same place and live in the same way?
Hanák, Martin ; Illner, Michal (advisor) ; Kandert, Josef (referee)
The aim of the work is to explore lifestyles, let us to say everyday activities in time and space as they are reflected in lifestyle, spending, leisure and professed values as a part of lifestyle of residents in next block of flats in a part of central city (Prague 5, Smíchov) which is in a direct neighbourhood of a core city. The intention is to find out as well if the concrete lifestyle of residents led to the fact that they decide to live in the area although most of them dispose of sufficient resources and can choose their place of living in all of Prague. That is why is the aim also to compare everyday activities in time and space of residents of central city with activities of residents of suburb. We could discover in the explored population living in central city 8 main types of lifestyles: lifestyle centred on family, on the care of the body and spirit, centred against partnership, active lifestyle, ambitious and longing for prestige, life without constraints, taking a back seat (conventional) and lifestyle of professionals centred on culture. When one of the dimensions of lifestyle (everyday activities) was compared between explored residents in area of central city and in area of suburb was found out the differences in shopping, traffic, time spent in a job and in leisure. Powered by TCPDF...
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Priesthood on the crossroad
Zajíc, Jan ; Kandert, Josef (advisor) ; Spalová, Barbora (referee)
The thesis deals with the crisis of the Roman-Catholic priesthood within the Czech Church and society. It aims to provide evidence of this crisis, to describe it and document its appearance, identifying possible sources of its present form. The study aims to answer the crucial question: Why is the contemporary priesthood in our country in this crisis? A historical discussion sets the context in which the priesthood was formed during the key periods of the world history of the Roman-Catholic Church, and later also the Czech church. It traces the formation of the clerical role in direct relation to historical events, up to the contemporary conception of the priesthood and the form it takes in this country. Using quantitative data and empirical research by research agencies as well as original qualitative investigation, the thesis analyses the levels that play a key role in the form of this crisis. Based on these methods, the thesis suggests sources or reasons for this crisis and answers the question of why this crisis is felt by priests and many other members of the Roman-Catholic Church. The thesis's main contribution lies in its mapping of the original aspects of the Roman-Catholic conception of the Christian priesthood which seeks its fulfilment in the history of the Church. The study offers an insight...
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Nations and terrorisms in speeches by V.V. Putin and G.W. Bush
Dyurych, Pavlo ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Kandert, Josef (referee)
In this cross-national case study the author, as a former appreciator of Vladimir Putin's policy toward Chechnya, has tried to interpret the war on terrorism as a constructed entity by political leaders in crisis situations. Being inspired by the structural analysis of mythology he tries to identify the similarities and differences in the narratives about terrorism constructed by Vladimir Putin and G.W. Bush. The author argues that the both situations - in Russia in September 1999 and in USA after 11.9.2001 - could be regarded as crisis situations, and that is why the similarities could be found in the narratives about terrorism, articulated by both political leaders. In the first part of this paper, the author has shown the historical context of crisis in both countries. The second and the third part of the work is a qualitative content analysis of Bush's and Putin's speeches related to terrorism. The author has analytically divided speeches into two major blocks: "before" (speeches produced by the leaders in the short period after the crisis) and "after" (speeches produced by the leaders during their military campaigns on terror). The author argues that despite the minor mutations in the narrative, the structure of the myth was not affected. The main achievement of this case study is the finding that the...
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Outline of the change of the Czech countryside of 20th century
Šmatová, Barbora ; Vodáková, Alena (advisor) ; Kandert, Josef (referee)
1 A b s t r a k t Práce je pokusem přiblížit pohled na několik z proměn českého venkova dvacátého století, zejména po linii proměn životního stylu, sféry práce a trávení volného času obyvatel venkova. Hlavním zám ěrem je pojednání o příčinách a důsledcích proměn na základě srovnávací analýzy vybraných dokumentů zachycujících venkov své doby a načrtnutí jeho sociologického obrazu. Práce se pokouší zachytit a ukázat venkov v různých dimenzích a z různých pohledů, to jak byl nebo je v jednotlivých dokum entech a pramenech zobrazován a strukturován v čase, jak jsou jednotlivé obrazy vrstvené, kde se prolínají, kde se naopak rozcházejí, v jakých kontextech se objevují, jak modelují a člení načrtnutý obraz. Snahou práce s uvedenými prameny je popis a propojení různých přístupů, zachycení linie proměn a zároveň konkretizace na společnosti českého venkova v jejich dynamičnosti a kontinuálnosti, pojmenování význam ných mezníků, jejich zachycení v čase a jaké měly důsledky pro svoji a další generaci. Text je pokusem o sestavení kom parativního sociologického obrazu několika proměn českého venkova a vesnice. Klíčová slova venkov, proměny venkova, tradiční a moderní společnost, sociální struktura A b s t r a c t The paper tries to approach several of the Czech countryside changes during the 20th century, more...
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Identity of volhynian Czechs settled in Czech Republic and nonreemigrated volhynian Czechs in Ukraine
Jirka, Luděk ; Kandert, Josef (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Moravcová, Mirjam (referee)
This work deals with transnational ties of reemigrated Volhynian Czechs and ethnic return migration of descendants of non-reemigrated Volhynian Czechs. Dissertation was founded on fieldwork in West Ukraine and in the Czech Republic. Researches of reemigrated Volhynian Czechs were studied in terms of integration or adaptation into the Czech (Czechoslovak) society, but this work, in first part, critically shows immigration narrative of Czech (Czechoslovak) social sciences; there were also transnational ties to Ukraine to which reemigrated Volhynian Czech refers as a meaningful. Next part of this work deals with ethnic return migration of descendants of non-reemigrated Volhynian Czechs. Descendants of compatriots have with Ukrainian ethnic consciousness, but Czech state allows them short-term and long-term stays in the Czech Republic thanks to ancestors, so that they are attracted with Czech surroundings, express wishes to migrate into the Czech Republic and they even could obtain permanent residency more easily due to Czech ancestors. Czech state facilitates migration flow from West Ukraine to the Czech Republic according to presume "closeness" of descendants of compatriots to Czech nation. Common reference of Czech social sciences and Czech state is nationalism which products social reality....
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