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A Case of Environmental Movement in the Czech Republic: Identity in Extinction Rebellion
Minkovová, Beatriz ; Novák, Arnošt (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (referee)
The subject of the diploma thesis is the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion in the Czech Republic. To understand the context, the theoretical section of the thesis presents the history of environmental movements, the development of activism in the Czech Republic and also describes the current Czech environmental organizations and the typology of illegal actions. Next part of the theoretical section is a detailed presentation of the Extinction Rebellion movement in both the international and Czech environment, as well as the definition of collective identity as a fundamental concept of the thesis. The aim of this qualitative research is to find out what is the collective identity of Extinction Rebellion movement. To provide a thorough and holistic understanding of the movement's collective identity, as well as Extinction Rebellion as a phenomenon, the research raises secondary research questions about people's motivations to join the movement, their expectations and members' attitudes to climate change. Data collection through semi-structured interviews and documents is used to answer the questions. The main applied concepts are three categories and three features of collective identity defined by Albert Melucci. Extinction Rebellion is a grass-root, radical and autonomous movement, using...
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"Better Red than Dead": American Indians' Struggle for Sovereignty Rights in the 1960s and 1970s
Staňková, Olga ; Sehnálková, Jana (advisor) ; Kozák, Kryštof (referee)
In my thesis, I argue that the Native American activism of the 1960s and 1970s does not fall into the category of Civil Rights Movement because of its significantly different goals, and that the fundamentally different character of sovereignty rights also keeps the Indian struggle invisible in American understandings of U.S. political and social history. According to my analysis, the terms tribal sovereignty, self-determination, and treaty rights describe the ultimate goals of the Native American activists in the 1960s and 1970s the best. The decade between 1964 and 1974 witnessed the rise of radical Indian activism, which succeeded in reminding the general public and politicians that Indians are still present in the United States. Furthermore, it influenced a whole generation of Native Americans who found new pride in being Indian. However, this current of American activism is not known so well by the general U.S. public. This thesis will describe this state as "selective visibility" deriving from U.S. selective historical memory, only noticing and remembering those events and images concerning Native Americans that can be simply understood, somehow relate to the U.S. set of values, and fit in the national historical narrative.
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"Better Red than Dead": American Indians' Struggle for Sovereignty Rights in the 1960s and 1970s
Staňková, Olga ; Sehnálková, Jana (advisor) ; Kozák, Kryštof (referee)
In my thesis, I argue that the Native American activism of the 1960s and 1970s does not fall into the category of Civil Rights Movement because of its significantly different goals, and that the fundamentally different character of sovereignty rights also keeps the Indian struggle invisible in American understandings of U.S. political and social history. According to my analysis, the terms tribal sovereignty, self-determination, and treaty rights describe the ultimate goals of the Native American activists in the 1960s and 1970s the best. The decade between 1964 and 1974 witnessed the rise of radical Indian activism, which succeeded in reminding the general public and politicians that Indians are still present in the United States. Furthermore, it influenced a whole generation of Native Americans who found new pride in being Indian. However, this current of American activism is not known so well by the general U.S. public. This thesis will describe this state as "selective visibility" deriving from U.S. selective historical memory, only noticing and remembering those events and images concerning Native Americans that can be simply understood, somehow relate to the U.S. set of values, and fit in the national historical narrative.
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