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Transformation of Japan into a modern state - Meiji Reform
Havlík, Jakub ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
This study is about Japan's transformation caused by intervention of Western Civilization, which made Japan suffer partial loss of state sovereignty. The power structure, which brooked the loss inflicted by strong Western Civilization, crumbled and new government tried to correct this loss for taking back Japan's full sovereignty. In the process of dealing with the West, Japan started to collect knowledge and take over some concepts, which caused changes in japanese national identity and its shaping close to the model of Western Civilization. The objective of this study is to point out that this transformation is best and enough thoroughly explained by the changes in japanese national identity and taking over knowledge, ideas, principles and intellectual concepts of Western Civilization.
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Folk dance in national identity's construction: dance groups in Sarajevo during war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the years 1992 - 1995
Grossová, Veronika ; Hofmeisterová, Karin (advisor) ; Žíla, Ondřej (referee)
The bachelor thesis examines the Cultural Art Societies and more precisely amateur folklore dance groups in Yugoslavia between 1945 - 1992 and in besieged Sarajevo during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author comprehend the folklore dance as one of the tools used for creating the national identities during the period of the modern European states' construction. Within strengthening specific national identity, also the folklore dances were used for consolidating the political power and legitimization of the regime during the 20. century. The idea of the Yugoslavian worker self - management, which had been practised since the 1950s, spread to the cultural agenda as well. Workers groups were establishing the amateurs' artistic organizations, which maintained the cultural heritage - songs, dances and plays. The purpose of these organizations was to spread the Yugoslavian identity and to support a narrative about brotherhood and unity of all the Yugoslavian's nations. Along with the economic problems, the nationalistic tensions occurred in the 1980s and it caused the break-up of Yugoslavia induced by a series of wars. The three most numerous ethnics - Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats fought against each other, and the traditional multi-ethnic capital was not spared of conflict. The aim of bachelor...
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Development of Chinese views on the origins of Chinese civilization and statehood documented on example of archaeology
Píbilová, Dominika ; Maršálek, Jakub (advisor) ; Hudeček, Jiří (referee)
This thesis deals with analysis of development of Chinese views on the origins of Chinese culture and statehood in view of archaeological research between the years 1940 and 1980. The analysis is based on information provided by popularizing media, specifically Chinese newspapers and high school textbooks, which are paired with archaeological overview from specialized publications written in English, Czech and Chinese language. Thesis consists of three parts. Firstly, it outlines development in archeology during four decades and the impact of nonacademic influence on scientific work. It serves as theoretical reference frame for the following analysis of Chinese sources. The second chapter deals with reflection of archaeological research in articles of the People's Daily newspapers. How are the archaeological findings valued by society, how does state ideology impacts on their research and it is related to that what are the geographical tendencies. Terminology and biased manner of expression in articles are also included to analysis. The third chapter consists of the study of views on the history of Chinese antiquity in textbooks. In which ways were textological historiography and outcome of archaeological research combined, including factual chronology of historical events and geographical location...
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Vitality of the current Galician language
Picková, Lenka ; Čermák, Petr (advisor) ; Zavadil, Bohumil (referee) ; Valeš, Miroslav (referee)
Mgr. Lenka Picková Vitality of the current Galician language Abstract: Never in the field of human history has the dying out of languages been as intense as it is in the present day. The goal of this paper is to assess the vitality of the one of the co- official languages in Spain, the Galician language. After an indispensable definition of the social-historical context, a deep, qualitative and quantitative analysis of nine factors is performed: inter-generational language transmission, education, the absolute and relative number of speakers, trends in existing language domains and media, governmental and institutional language attitudes, and, above all, the attitudes of Galician citizens toward their languages. In the final chapter, a summary of the results of these individual factors, as well as an assessment of their influence on the vitality of the Galician language, is provided. Key words: endangered languages, assessment of language vitality, Galician, language attitudes, minority languages, diglossia, languages in contact, national identity, speaker's attitudes.
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Transcultural turnover and national identity
Holubová, Kateřina ; Podaná, Zuzana (advisor) ; Šubrt, Jiří (referee)
The essence of the thesis is to answer the best possible way the theoretical and empirical question how national identity reflects the transcultural turnover (Kreuzzieger, 2012a, 2012b). The concept of transcultural turnover includes theories which consider the cultural aspects of contemporary accelerating globalization, including a premise of weakening of the nation-state in terms of its cultural homogeneity (Welsch, 1999, 2000), which is seen as one of the pillars of national identity (Hall, 1992; Anderson, 2008; Tomlinson 2003). Answers to the raised questions are by some authors conceptualized differently, and as such, in the form of hypotheses, the answers enter the empirical part of this thesis and there they are tested for 16 selected European countries thanks to the publicly available data from a survey of national identity. The research was carried out by ISSP in 1995 and 2003. There are also used some other sources of aggregate data such as GDP level or index of globalization. From the statistical analysis there is hierarchical cluster analysis, correlation analysis and Z-test of proportions. The real effect of transcultural turnover to change the form of national identity can not be on the basis of the empirical part of this thesis excluded, given the fact that the national identities of...
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National identity in the Czech contemporary drama
Bábková, Markéta ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
The goal of the master thesis "National identity in contemporary Czech theatre plays" is to analyse some chosen features of the contemporary Czech national identity based on examples from texts written by David Drábek and Miroslav Bambušek. In the first part, some basic categories are interpreted, that create the Czech identity, from the historical and sociological point of view. The chosen features of the Czech identity are analysed in the second part with regard to the theatre plays by two authors mentioned above. A summary of these features follows, as well as a characteristics of the tools both authors use to interpret topics related to this master thesis.
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National identity of Albanian emigrants in Prague
Stehlíková, Barbora ; Šatava, Leoš (advisor) ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (referee)
The target of this bachelor thesis is research of national identity of Albanian migrants in Prague and its manifestation. The research is carried out with the biographical method, by which the researcher focuses much more on the life of a particular person. The narrative episodic interviews are used and the greatest space is given to the narrator. Afterwards the texts obtained by this way are interpretated properly. In addition to the analysis of the interviews this paper encompass the summary of the literature engaged with the Albanians in Czech Republic. Furthermore there is the description of the biographical method, whereas it stems from the essays of Petra Klvačová and Zdeněk Konopásek. The theoretical determination of the basic terms like "identity", "national identity" and "ethnic identity" follows and then the brief review of the historical development in Albania and Kosovo. The less attention is paid to the relationship between the migrant and the city. We attained to the conclusion that the national identity of the all seven informants represents one of the possible subidentities, which moves on the imaginery web in the bigger distance from the centre than other aspects presented by the informants. These aspects were e. g. job or some hobby.
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How Does One Become a True Italian? The Struggle of Second Generation Immigrants to Change the Italian Citizenship Law.
Fejerová, Eva ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Mejstřík, Martin (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to examine the phenomenon of second-generation immigrant associations in Italy and focuses on their efforts to change the 1992 Citizenship Law between 2005 and 2014. The goal of the thesis is to determine whether the style of their argumentation is nationalistic or multicultural. The nationalistic style would point to their identification with Italy as a classical nation state, reflecting an acceptance of Italy's autostereotypes. The multicultural argumentation style would show that their primary frame of reference is the culture of their parents' country of origin and reflect a desire to see Italian society transformed according to multicultural principles, where all cultures are equally respected and esteemed. Christian Joppke's theory of three-dimensional citizenship (status, rights, identity) serves as an instrument for research. Anne-Marie Thiesse's national identity checklist serves as a guideline for distinguishing between nationalistic and post-nationalistic argumentation style. The analysis shows that the dimension these associations refer to the most is identity, which they use to prove their "Italianicity." They conduct their argumentation in a very classical nationalistic style, using themes such as Italian language, national territory, and national cuisine....
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National identity as a corrective of the absolute primacy of European law
Benešová, Kristýna ; Tomášek, Michal (advisor) ; Scheu, Harald Christian (referee)
National Identity as a Corrective of the Absolute Primacy of European Law. The aim of this thesis is to analyse national identity within Article 4(2) TEU and the potential of such article to serve as a legal ground for derogation from obligation imposed by EU law. From a wider perspective, the thesis attempts to assess whether introduction of Article 4(2) TEU redefined the relation between national legal orders and EU law. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter deals with the pivotal principle of EU law primacy. The chapter explains two distinctive approaches adopted by the CJEU (absolute primacy) and the Member States (relative primacy). In the second chapter, the author firstly provides brief history of obligation to respect national identity in the Treaties. Secondly, she examines the content of term "national identity". The author claims that Article 4(2) TEU has a composite (pluralistic) structure, thus, the national courts and the CJEU plays different roles in application of the obligation to respect national identity. The national identity is inherently linked to the constitutional law of Member States, therefore, it must be defined by its constitutional courts. At the same time, the CJEU lacks the competence to interpret national identity as such, however, it is...
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