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Negotiation of the power(lessness) between blind and partially sighted people and sighted people
Džurdženiková, Lucie ; Zandlová, Markéta (advisor) ; Ezzeddine, Petra (referee)
This anthropological research is about people with visual impairment, focusing primarily through the perspective of power and empowerment (Bourdieu, 1986; Foucault, 2000; Chamberlin, 1997), stigmatization (Goffmann, 2003) and standard on ways in which individuals with visual impairment negotiate and redefine their position in different areas of life. Impairment is by the majority perceived as a disease, which is not easy to define. It is a kind of spectrum (Holčík, Koupilová, 2004) and this thesis is based on the premise that the concepts of health, illness and impairment (and disability) are all cultural products that are partly determined by structures and shaped by both economic, social and political factors as well as historical development of the company (Craddock, 2000). For the purposes of this work, there are differentiated areas of family, partnership, interests, work and education. The research sees language as a part of the symbolic power (Bourdieu, 1991) and methods of empowerment (Chamberlin, 1997) of individuals with visual impairment. Mainly with the help of the concept of biopower (Foucault, 2000) and symbolic order and violence (Bourdieu, 2000), it shows the strategies of negotiating the power hierarchy in society. It turns out that a main role in negotiating between a visually...
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Analýza postavení a situace migrantek a žen s migračním původem ve vyšším středním a seniorském věku
Hradečná, Pavla ; Holíková, Klára ; Faltová, Magda ; Jelínková, Marie ; Ezzeddine, Petra ; Duba, Pavel ; Vacovská, Taťána ; Lörincová, Dominika ; Chmeliar, Peter ; Bikova, Mariya
Předkládaná publikace se zabývá problematikou migrantek či žen s migračním původem ve vyšším středním až seniorském věku, které žijí na území ČR. Je zpracována na základě získaných informací o vyšších rizicích vícenásobné diskriminace, která jim hrozí, a také na základě identifikované potřeby lepšího ukotvení práv těchto osob ve strategických dokumentech zabývajících se integrací migrantů a migrantek. V dlouhodobém horizontu tato analýza směřuje k posílení práv žen. Neméně významným faktorem, který stojí za vznikem této práce, je i snaha přiblížit téma genderu a stárnutí v migraci odborné veřejnosti, přispět k posílení spolupráce celé řady relevantních subjektů a v ideálním případě do budoucna podnítit český stát ke změnám v oblasti přístupu k ženám s migračními kořeny.
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Women at the Sidelines (?) - Gender, Migration and Ageing
Hradečná, Pavla ; Jelínková, Marie ; Ezzeddine, Petra ; Havelková, Hana
The present publication refers to a specific topic of the status and situation of migrant women and women with a migration background in upper-middle and senior age in the Czech Republic. It is a theme in the Czech environment yet unresolved, which, however, has been gradually gaining in size and, therefore, in relevance. The first part of the publication describes results of an extensive Analysis of the Position and Situation of these women in Czech Republic. The second part of the publication deals with a specific group of senior migrant women in the Czech Republic. The presented qualitative research covers a group of women aged 50+ with a refugee background coming from former Yugoslavia who have lived in the Czech Republic for more than twenty years.
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Russian speaking students (from Russia and Kazakhstan) in the Czech Republic. Educational migration and the role of the family in it
Kopecká, Liudmila ; Pinc, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Ezzeddine, Petra (referee) ; Sidiropulu Janků, Kateřina (referee)
The PhD thesis "Russian Speaking Students (from Russia and Kazakhstan) in the Czech Republic: Educational Migration and the Role of the Family in it", examines the life of Russian speaking students, who come to the Czech Republic to obtain a university degree. It tries to answer several research questions. How is the decision taken to come to the Czech Republic? What kind of role does family play in the decision-making process and in further intentions/plans in the Czech Republic? What are the migration strategies of Russian speaking students in the Czech Republic? How do these strategies change over time? What connections exist between the life cycle of the student and the migration process? This is an anthropological, multisite field research, with participant observation being the core research method. As of 2015, 55 student research participants participated in the research (41 from Russia and 14 from Kazakhstan), with whom formal and informal interviews were made. Transnationalism and migration system theory have been used as theoretical concepts so as to better understand the student migration process.
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Identity and Ethnicity View of the czech ethnocultural diversity in Rio Grande do Sul
Santos, Anežka ; Halbich, Marek (advisor) ; Ezzeddine, Petra (referee)
The aim of this work is to reconstruct the history of the life of the Bo?mios living in the Brazilian state Rio Grande do Sul. This will be done through identifying the importance they ascribe to their tradition, history and memory, as well as, their activity on the Rio Grande social, economic and political scene. Also, it will be necessary to map out their symbolical world - regenerate their collective memory in relationship to important circumstances that led to their immigration to Brazil and their subsequent arrival to Rio Grande do Sul. This research brings description and analysis of the cultural aspects of the Bo?mios in Rio Grande do Sul. For this purpose, the paper draws on the foundations of the life stories of the important representatives of this culture. Recently they showed a great interest in getting to know their real origins, something we could call the search for ethnic identity as a subject of the history of immigration. They founded compatriotic groups, started learning Czech language that has never been their mother tongue and attempted to renew contacts with the Czech Republic. All these circumstances served as an impulse for this research.
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Comodification of Childhood
Bystřická, Ivana ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Bittnerová, Dana (referee)
This essay concerns with ways in which is childhood in the relatively small and isolated village commodificated. The research focuses on the way how do local women during pregnancy and in the period after the birth make a layette for their infants. It explores which objects or attitudes are for these women during making the layette important and how these things later enter the interaction of local inhabitans. It shows, that objects socially work mainly on three degrees: during negotiating of own social status, dignity and during the manifestation of love, in the sense of care and concern. Objects are not only the way how to confirm or improve one's social position, but it is also a public manifestation of love. The essay later explores ways, how these factors work in a social life of the village and also the role, which objects play in this proces.
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Home sweet home? Expats and their various ways of creating a home
Holubová, Kateřina ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Zandlová, Markéta (referee)
This study focuses on expats, professionals and specialists from English-speaking countries who were sent by their employers to work abroad in Switzerland. They together with their families, were asked to move to a foreign country and start new lives. Although the relocation does bring a change in career and in most cases, a better personal economic situation, it also brings with it, big life changes. The most obvious changes are associated with separation from their ancestral homes and families, and the need for the establishment of new ones. The central point of this study is the question of what helps to create these new homes and what is involved in this sphere. The fieldwork, which was defined by cohabitation with the families, consisted of observation and analysis to determine the social and material practices through which expatriate families relate to their homes - and how it was narratively reflected. Some major points of observation included the universal need for the families to have with them, objects of a material nature that linked their new home to the original and contemporary home, and a tendency to establish social ties with other expats as a substitution of the family support network. Also observed were the aspects of the adaptation of the family members to their new homes and...
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Migrant women as active citizens
Jenková, Pavla ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Uhde, Zuzana (referee)
Diploma thesis tries to offer a new insight into migration and integration of migrant women living in Czech Republic by means of life-story telling of ten such women. By using this approach the author tries to deconstruct stereotypical understanding of migration as a threat or a security hazard for the accepting society, on the contrary she tries to picture migrant women and their life-stories as tales of people who consider Czech Republic their second home and who actively participate on its development. Citizenship is understood as a membership in society of which migrant women are also legitimate and active members. The thesis should contribute to building positive attitude towards migrant women in general and it also offers recommendations for the public as well as integration policy creators as to how migrant women can be reflected in context of migration.
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The Lighthouse (field work)
Horáková, Klára ; Kolářová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Ezzeddine, Petra (referee)
This work focuses on ethnographical research carried out in "Dům světla" (House of Light), which is an asylum house for HIV positive people. The aim of this work was to find out whether the employees and volunteers of this asylum house are affected by the stigmatization which is connected to AIDS disease and how they, in case of need, cope with it. Contemporary, concepts of "risk" groups and "risk" behaviour, shame, fear or "difference" are connected to this topic. That is why another aim of this thesis was to find out how volunteers perceive their work in Dům světla, what meanings it has to them and how they interpret this activity. For answering these questions I made a two-year lasting participative observation as volunteer there and carried out informal and in-depth interviews. In context of this thesis I also focused on shorter analysis of preventive materials published by The Czech AIDS Help Society to learn the concepts used by the organization itself.
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