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.Home of Homeless: Social Construction of Non-conventional Home
Kotyk, Lukáš ; Grygar, Jakub (advisor) ; Hájek, Martin (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on the phenomena of homelessness as a situation in which individuals do not have enough money to secure the conventional accommodation. This leads to them constructing their home in the public space or squatting abandoned buildings. This thesis refuses to interpret homelessness as a pathological phenomenon or as a violation of order (in order to demonstrate this, individual approaches are usually being used). The author of the thesis presents homelessness as a consequence of the economic system which orders out a certain part of population. This part cannot attain the minimum measure of the chance to consume which would sustain a secure life. The concept of hybrid, which is the integral part of the actor-network-theory and it originates in the works of Bruno Latour, allows us to interpret home through the interconnection of material objects and social relationship. This approach leads to disengagement from the atypical form of unconventional homes and to thinking about them as about a normal way of housing. The basis of the ethnographic research is the perspective of the material culture studies. In the framework of this perspective, individual dwellings (inhabited by the class of the poorest) are examined. The research contains an analysis of nine such dwellings in...
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Media image of squatter in czech printed
Myšák, Jan ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Hronová, Tereza (referee)
In the bachelor work Media image of squatter in the Czech press I focuse on imaging minority of squatters in July - August, 2009. In these months, the media reported about squatting in connection with the eviction of Prague villa Milada in Trója on 30th June 2009. I chose Czech print media as the subject of my research. I examine thematic focus of the studied articles, form of protruding actors and other essentials of researched texts by the method of content analysis. In the theoretical part I pursue the mechanism of media, imaging minorities and brief definition of squatting.
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Squatting as a political problem
Chaloupka, Zdeněk ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Kotábová, Věra (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Squating as a political problem" deals with the phenomenon of Czech squatting after 1989. Due to lack of relevant literature it focuses at first on accurate definition of squating and shows some possibilities of its political determination. It farther describe the collision of squating ideas with present concept of democracy and Czech law and emphasizes the discrepancy betwen ilegality and legitimity. Important parts of this thesis are interviews with former squaters and representants of anarchist movement.
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Delinquents or activists, stepping into the world of squatting
Beňová, Barbora ; Kreisslová, Sandra (advisor) ; Štolfová, Andrea (referee)
The work is focused on the phenomenon of squatting, specifically on the process of socialization into this subculture. That is demonstrated on the examples of participants of this specific group of society. The aim is to take hold of human transformation, how a man becomes a squatter. This bachelor thesis is divided into several units; the first, theoretical part is focused on terminology, definition of subculture, squatting, its division and history. Also the Turner´s concept of communitas is introduced. In the following, practical part, the attention is aiming at the history, values and activities of Anticommercial cultural and social centre Klinika. The main characters from ASC Klinika are coming to the foreground and their testimonies, observations, opinions and life stories are becoming the object of our interest. That allows us to look deeper into the world of squatting, into its sunny gardens just as darker recesses, and draws us nearer to the genesis of new members of squatting community.
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