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Women of Transition: Collective Memory in Azerbaijan Republic
Hashimova, Husniyya ; Marková, Alena (advisor) ; Coman, Adam (referee)
By the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the social, political and economic transformation had a major impact on Azerbaijani society that was part of the Soviet Union for nearly seventy years. How it is remembered is as important as what happened. This thesis examines the collective memory of Azerbaijani women of transition and de(re) construction of their collective identity. Biographical interviews were conducted with ten women living in four cities of Azerbaijan. The research results indicate that gendered collective memory of the Soviet past and transition encompasses both nostalgic sentiments and trauma. These results conclude that historical consciousness and political awareness of Azerbaijani women is insufficient. Nevertheless, their collective identity has been constructed by their collective memory of the quotidian life. Keywords: collective memory, collective identity, Soviet Union, transition, Azerbaijani women, nostalgia, cultural trauma, oral history
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Cultural Trauma of the Invasion in 1968 in Broadcasting of Czech Television in the Years 1990-2015
Chudomelová, Lenka ; Mlynář, Jakub (advisor) ; Šubrt, Jiří (referee)
(in English) The bachelor thesis examines the concept of cultural trauma in relation to the invasion of armies of the Warsaw Pact to Czechoslovakia in August 1968. It is focused on the commemoration broadcasting of the Czech television in 1990-2015. A frame analysis was used and ten issue-specific frames were found. Half of the frames had features of cultural trauma and the traumatic frames were articulated more often than the non-traumatic ones. The negotiation of interpretation of the event took place in three phases since 1990: in the first phase the August 1968 is used as an instrument for emphasizing of a distance between the old and new regimes and for national unification against the old socialist regime. In the second phase the universal importance of the Prague Spring and its violent ending was suppressed and the feeling of overcoming was dominant. In the third phase the event became significant again and the events of the August 1969 were separated from the narrative as specific and also traumatic. The events of the August 1968 were used as parallels to various current problems (wars, relations to world powers and also internal political situations) and it seems that the August 1968 is one of the important cultural points of reference.
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Political Culture in Narratives
Kapal, Tomáš ; Grznár, Miroslav (advisor) ; Morávková, Eva (referee)
Political culture in narratives Abstract Thesis "Political culture in narratives" aims on the phenomenom of Political culture as was defined by Almond and Verba. Base of this thesis are researches on Political culture by Almond and Verba and other authors who done researches on this topic including political culture researches done within context in the Czech Republic. The research in this thesis is based on ten semi-structured qualitative interviews with informants, who grew up during the communist era in former Czechoslovakia. Interviews aimed on informants' experiences during the communism era, Velvet revolution, economic transformation and present day. Informants evaluates their understanding of political situation during mentioned eras, their political activity and their life situation. Thases aims on behalf of this data to discover how growing up during communist era, Velvet revolution and economical transformation influenced informants' political attitudes and how it influenced their political culture. It was discovered that during the communsit era subject political culture dominated. This changed right after Velvet revolution, when participant attitudes dominated. After the series of dissapointments in political situation during the economic transformation, informants showed anomic attitudes...
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