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"Emotional Work in Club X: Emic Perspective on the Profession of a Stripper"
Lavičková, Tereza ; Kolářová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Ezzeddine, Petra (referee)
This Master's thesis focuses on the emotional labor of strippers from Prague's strip club X. I see striptease as a profession that requires regulation of emotions in order to inspire appropriate feelings in customers. In order to find out how the employees perform their emotional labor while looking at it from their own perspective, I carried out an ethnographic research in the club X over several months to observe all the forms and aspects of its strippers' everyday emotional labor. Through an analysis of field notes I acquired in the course of my participant observation together with data from 12 interviews with the employees and managers working in the club, I examine the following points: their work conditions, the way strippers perform their emotional labor and deal with it, and also what consequences this job has for them and the club itself. In the final chapters of the thesis, I share my standpoint on the club X being a part of the so-called rape culture and the opportunities to transform the club's work conditions in order to make its work environment safer and the emotional work of their employees easier, all at once.
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Exil on the brink of maturity
Vašíčková, Barbora ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Heřmanová, Marie (referee)
The intended work examines how the relationship between the unaccompanied migrants and the hosts is formed within foster care. Foster care could be defined as "long-term and repetitive contacts," where specific forms of relationship are negotiated between individual actors. I ask what activities and practices the actors make significant concerning the arrival, what ideas and imaginations on the part of the actors enter into the relationship, and how emotional rules are negotiated in a relationship. Last but not least, the work examines how the individual actors relate to the category of unaccompanied minors, that is, how this category, which has its legal definition, is negotiated. Key words: unaccompanied minors, foster care, family practices, emotional work, reflexivity
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