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From Saris to Jeans and Back. A Migrant in the Network of Gendered Geographies of Power
Jindrová, Kristýna ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (referee)
This thesis is an ethnograp. It aimes to show the process of the identity change and the change of the character of the relationships. hic study of the situation of an immigrant called Lina from Bangladesh in Italy. It aimes to show the process of the identity change and the change of the character of the relationships. It points out to the both global and local power nets, especially the gendered ones. The framework of the "gendered geographies of power" was applied in this work, a tool designed by Patricia R. Pessar and Sarah J. Mahler for the topics related to migration processes. It encompasses the influance of gender in the relations in and between different levels of social reality (state, body, family), then the location of the person in the power hierarchies developed from historical, political, economical, parental etc. factors and in the last place the agency of the people involved. The thesis is based on the materials from a fieldwork, a situation when the researcher is in a direct and intimate contact with the daily life of the informant. (Participant observation) Another data source was the narrative interview that gave the informant the possibility of self-expression and the study gained a testimony about the informant's conceptualization of her life. It was demonstrated how is her...
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Ukrainian Labour Migration to the Czech Republic
Popela, Jaroslav ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee)
The topic of the thesis is a labour migration from the Ukraine to the Czech Republic. The author is interested in legal and illegal ways of stay and working of Ukrainian labour migrants in the Czech Republic. One of the crucial research questions is: Is it easier and more profitable for people to work legally or illegally in the Czech Republic? Another important issue is represented by question: Why people take advantage of illegal techniques to fulfil their intentions? What kind of problems do they have? The paper is focused on problems concerning acquirement of visa, labour permission, health insurance and other documents necessary for the legal stay and labour in the Czech Republic. Migrants can make use of services of socalled clients in such cases. The clients manage to obtain documents, work, accommodation and so on. However, some services of the clients can be illegal and sometimes part of the clients can be connected with the organized crime (maffia). Such dishonest clients exploit migrants and steal money from them. Last but not least, the thesis deals with the history of the migration from the Ukraine to the Czech Republic in the twentieth century, the demographic data and the migration trends.
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From Worm to Butterfly. Identity Transformation of Iranian Converts to Christianity
Bukovský, Jiří ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Vojtíšek, Zdeněk (referee)
This essay is dealing with the identity transformation of the Iranian converts to Pentecostal Christianity I was working with since September 2007 to July 2008 in London. Having chosen Bergers's and Luckmanns' sociology of knowledge as the main theoretical paradigm, I pursue two questions. The first one deals with socially relevant mechanisms of the transformation of 'knowledge' which defines social roles and identities. I try to demonstrate that the identity politics of the Islamic Republic has created a deep identity crisis. Conversion to Pentecostalism appears to be an answer to that identity crisis as it seems to provide a compatible 'knowledge' and a resolution of deep existential confusion. I analyze the ritual of 'Pentecostal worship' and the role of Christian community in the process of development of the Christian type of identity. The second question asks what determines the successful internalisation of the new identity. I try to demonstrate that it is the experience of the world. If the 'knowledge' of the community seems to correspond with the life experience and if the community is able to provide a sufficiently strong experience which would seem to verify the 'knowledge', one can expect a profound internalisation of the identity. In this essay, the experience of the world in the ritual and the...
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Politicizing Sexualities: Mobilization practices and networking within the LGBTQ movement in contemporary Madrid
Wiesnerová, Vendula ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
This ethnographic study intends to explain the recent mobilization practices within the LGBTQ movement in contemporary Madrid in reference to the strategic use of identity and networking in collective action. It describes the Spanish movement as an ideologically polarized heterogeneous aggregate. The active challenging groups criticize the dominant part of the movement for giving up its original message of sexual liberation and diluting it in consumerism by supporting capitalist tendencies and the power of leading political parties. Via launching protest campaigns and collaborating in internationally supported networks with other ideologically related social movement communities, the challenging groups demand civil rights for all people, regardless of their sexual orientation or identity. They mobilize upon the collective identity of "precariousness" while integrating elements of queer and transgender theory into their radical leftist oriented politics in order to transform the Spanish society. By bringing on new critical ideas and adherents, the success of the leftist oriented challenging groups has an impact on the direction of the politics of the dominant group, which thereby is forced to adopt such ideas into their politics. Despite the disunity and antagonistic character of the movement, the...
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To meet next week again (Gender scecified foraml social network of imigrant women)
Pavlíková, Lenka ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Šiklová, Jiřina (referee)
The issue of women independent migration, and their their individual choice to do so, has been approached by migration studies only since the 1970s. This master's thesis focuses on the migration and gender aspect of social networks. Through research carried out within a gender specific formal social network (the Multicultural women group organised by a migrant integration oriented non-profit organisation addressing especially migrant women) this dissertation aims to describe particular manifestations of the gender specific mechanisms affecting different women and men migration experience.
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Here under the Cover. An Anthropology of Food.
Pokorná, Anna ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (referee)
Synaesthesia (Sutton, 2001), a term used in anthropology of food for the capacities of food to evoke the past in its sensual totality, finds its use in the situation of migration. Migration as a geographical and cultural displacement leaves the country of origin behind. Country of origin becomes the past, its food can be used for evocation of this past experiences subsumed under the notion of home. Evocation of home through the medium of food helps to patch the discontinuites arising from displacement. The memory of home operates as filter through which new circumstances, beliefs and values are experienced and viewed. Taste and eating habits as a part of habitus, mundane taken-for-granted world, yet embodied part of beliefs and cultural norms, are resistant to suspicion that our perception of it might be subject to our interpretation and can play an active role as confirmation of our beliefs about self and Others, and cosequently as the legitimation of action. Moreover, contextuality of food and eating habits (Appadurai, 1988) allows to place cultural difference in the private contexts and does not interpede the proces of integration into the host society. In combination with its mundane taken-for-granted qualities food serves as an ideal material to pass on the cultural difference over the...
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Ethnography of research object in knowledge production practices: Configurations of materiality, discursivity and agency.
Górska, Magdalena ; Kiczková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Ezzeddine, Petra (referee)
Thesis investigates performative processes of research object materialization in everyday research practices enacted in a scientific laboratory examining biosynthesis of pheromones of bumblebees. Drawing attention to the simultaneous continuities and transformations that are characteristic for the specific materialization processes of the research object, the thesis attempts to question anthropocentric accounts of cognitive practices of science and focuses not only on human but also on non-human agency. It also attempts to challenge conceptualisation of matter as passive and essential entity which is grounded in positivist and representationalist accounts of science and knowledge. Instead, it aims to understand materiality and diskursivity as mutually and onto-epistemologically constitutive. The thesis also marginally focuses on the contemporary research policies and managerial and evaluation systems that are discussed here as normative actors transforming concept of science and agentially constituting research object enactment in everyday research practices. These debates are grounded in a posthumanist materialist framework that builds on literature in science studies (Actor-Network-Theory in particular) and feminist materialism of Karen Barad and Judith Butler.
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