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Comparison of approaches towards people with disability in Francoist Spain and socialist Czechoslovakia
Wudiová, Markéta ; Mužáková, Monika (advisor) ; Němec, Zbyněk (referee)
The thesis compares the position of people with disabilities in two non-democratic regimes of the 20th century, namely Francoist Spain and socialist Czechoslovakia. The attitudes of each regime and the state initiatives taken in the field of care for people with disabilities are analysed. The possibilities for the development of the various organisations and their activities are also described. The work also focuses on two areas of the life of a person with disabilities - education and employment. The findings presented are set in the historical context of each country. The method used is the analysis and interpretation of legislation, state documents and academic publications. The comparison presents common features in the field of disability care, such as lack of interest in the issue, efforts to unify disability support organisations and their control. Both states have established segregated education for persons with disabilities. The employment of persons with disabilities depended on the form of economic establishment. Protected employment in Czechoslovakia was mediated by Svaz invalidů (the Union of the Disabled). In Spain, ONCE played a key role in providing employment for people with visual impairments. The international context and the influence of religious institutions on the form of...
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Student Opposition Movement under Franco's Dictatorship in 1956-1975
Cajkář, Jakub ; Menclová, Barbora (advisor) ; Šindelář, Jakub (referee)
The bachelor thesis is focused on the anti-Franco student movement in Spain during Franco's dictatorship between the years 1956 and 1975. The research concentrates mainly on the position of the student movement and its protest activities. This thesis aims to analyze the activities of the student movement, its development, achievements, and potential impact on the decision-making of the Francoist government. The paper answers the question of whether the student movement caused any concessions made by the Francoist government. Firstly, the paper deal with conditions at universities before the year 1956. At these times, universities were formed by restrictive measures and by attempts for the catholicization of the education system. In this section, author focuses on the role of the regime at universities. This chapter concentrates also on the formation and development of student movement until the crucial year 1956 which became a landmark in organizing continuous protests. The pivotal section of the research follows which chronologically examines activities of the student opposition movement in the years 1956 and 1975. In this part, the thesis analyzes successes of the student movement, its imperfections, and focuses on its most significant years. Later, at the beginning of the seventies student...
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Foreign tourism: a phenomenon of opening the Francoist regime
Patočka, Miroslav ; Tomalová, Eliška (advisor) ; Bauer, Paul (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with foreign tourism as a significant phenomenon of the Francoist regime. Despite its changing role throughout the regime, particularly manifested by a change of its propagandistic utilization in the early years towards the public diplomacy, tourism can be considered the most important instrument of soft power. It has been crucial not only for the economic development, but especially for the opening of Francoist Spain. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of tourism as such, this case study deals with a wide range of internal and international areas of economic, political and socio-cultural character, which had to be directly addressed by the tourism policies. The aim of this thesis is to study the impacts of foreign tourism and its state cultivation on the changes of the international status of Spain during the Francoist era. Its main focus will therefore be analysis of the development of tourism policies, linked to the concepts of visual promotion and structure of foreign tourists during this period. The study therefore concludes that the successful and extensive cultivation of foreign tourism, unique to the Franco regime, had significant impacts on legitimacy of the dictatorship in an international context. Foreign tourism has thus extensively contributed to the...
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Politics of National Reconciliation within Anti-Francoist Opposition until the Transition to Democracy
Hloch, David ; Mejstřík, Martin (advisor) ; Urban, Traian (referee)
The bachelor thesis presented here deals with the developments and circumstances accompanying the phenomenon of the national reconciliation policy in Spain between the years 1955 through 1975. It aims to answer a question to what a degree these conciliatory endeavours proved to be successful, i. e. what their actual outcomes were, but it also deals with the impacts of these endeavours upon the Spanish society after the dictatorship's fall. The thesis is conceived as a case study whose contents are represented by the theoretic delimitation of the notions related to the issue of a divided society and its reconciliation, the introduction of the key players active in the reconciliation process, and, last but not least, the tracking of the development itself of the process, using the example of the behaviours displayed by the Communist Party and the Catholic Church. The thesis demonstrates that these conciliatory endeavours actually were successful, whereas their impact upon the subsequent development of the Spanish society was indeed substantial, as it resulted directly in the adoption of the oblivion pact policy. Even this finding can be perceived as being somewhat questionable though, since the crimes and the victims of the war and dictatorship period have failed to be acknowledged just because of it.
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Spanish sport in era of francoism and its political exploitation
Balík, Jiří ; Urban, Traian (advisor) ; Matějka, Ondřej (referee)
The thesis "Spanish sport in era of francoism and its political exploitation" deals with the use of sport in different policy sectors of Franco's regime. It examines how much sport reflected official state policy. The first part focuses on internal sport organization, which shows the domination over the entire sport sector. The second part of the thesis deals with the reflection of francoist internal policy in sports. Thus it analyses physical education as a tool for political indoctrination and top-level sport as a device to maintain social political passivity. Further, it analyses the centralist policy of the regime represented by the support of selected sport clubs and orientation of sport events to the capital city - Madrid. The third and final part defines use of sport in foreign policy. The thesis as a whole concludes that the projection of regime policy in sport is completely natural and that the regime didn't depart of its overall policy while using sport.
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Spanish economic miracle on the example of tourism
Jozífková, Tereza ; Szobi, Pavel (advisor) ; Fabianková, Klára (referee)
This master thesis deals with the topic of the so called Spanish economic miracle. It describes vast economic changes which started in the 1960s in Spain. The thesis offers a political context of dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975) and a review of economic development before and during this phenomenon (which is the most discussed). The economic boom is illustrated on an example of tourism. The thesis describes development of tourism and connection between tourism and the so called economic miracle.
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Reflection on the Spanish Civil War and Francoist era in Contemporary Spain
PEREZ MEDRANO, Jana
The main aim of this theses is to evaluate the remnants of the period of the civil war and the Franco era in contemporary Spain and to describe the steps that were made to break the collective silence. The first three chapters present an overview of Spain during the civil war and the Franco dictatorship and describe the process of it's transformation into a democratic country. The fourth chapter deals with the process of opening the mass graves. Becouse of the inactivity of the state, varios associations of victims took charge of this process. Afterwards the attention is paid to the most important symbol of Francoism, Valle de los Caídos, which became the tumb of the dictator and at the same time the place of the last rest of many victims of the civil war. The sixth and concurrently the last chapter is dedicated to Historical memory law of which aim was to compensate the victims of the civil war and to close the period of the division of the spanish society.
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