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Emotional Cartography
Rygálová, Monika ; Pfeiffer, Jan (referee) ; Sterec, Pavel (advisor)
The work aims to artistically compile perception of maps as a fact, what let us think about The world - how we know it from the map. I work with data, which I gain by displaying technology – eye tracking, which helps me to record track of moving eyes during watching any kind of picture. The observations will be people from different places such a place of stay etc. Gained data I am going to use as a study, which I will componate to maps and different vizualizations of world, countries etc. "Where i have not ever been before, it does not exist" – is idea of percepting world, wich I also work with on that project. Study will contain all aspect of perceiving maps and systematicly shown world related to the person, his memories to that place, fyzical contact and his impact in his scale person versus a the world.
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Home-topia
Demovičová, Barbora ; Sit, Peter (referee) ; Macháček, Mikuláš (advisor)
Home—Topia is an ongoing contemporary art research and exhibiting project, putting focus on the current forms of migration, rooting, unrooting and life in between cultures. Home—Topia is examining the notion of home, sense of belonging and its connection to the physical space. Home — Topia is based on the assumption that various forms of mobility, migration and life on the move have become one of the basic characteristics of today's world. The primary goal of the Home — Topia project is the realization of the group exhibition of five Berlin- based artists with ties to the Czech and Slovak cultural environment: Zorka Lednárová, Katarína Hrušková, Petra Debnárová and the duo Julia Gryboś + Barbora Zentková. Following the dialogue between the artists, new artworks will be created and presented in Raum für Drastische Maßnahmen gallery in Berlin. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event will not take place until 2021. A secondary output of the project is the online platform home-topia.eu. This online platform makes publicly accessible the research trajectory, interviews, essays, bibliography and events archive. The project also included the interactive video installation in the Raum für Drastische Maßnahmen gallery in Berlin, which used elements of augmented reality. Two channels video installation was presented from 11th until 21st of June.
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Procedures of a social worker when working with foreigners in the Czech Republic
KORANDOVÁ, Tereza
The diploma thesis focuses on the procedures of social workers in working with foreigners. The diploma thesis consists of two parts, while the first part is practical and focuses on the description of the target group and the field of social work. The second part of the diploma thesis is the practical part. This part outlines the methodology of work, operationalization of concepts, description of data collection and time schedule, there are also listed risks of research and ethical principles of work. The diploma thesis is focused on quantitative research. The aim of this work was to find out what knowledge, skills and methods and techniques of social work are used by social workers in the performance of their profession and also whether these aspects are influenced by education and length of practice. The research group consists of social workers of selected organizations that help foreigners in integration, throughout the Czech Republic. The research focused mainly on the knowledge and skills, methods and techniques used by social workers with foreigners. It was therefore a matter of the respondents subjectively evaluating their professional performance. The selection criteria are length of practice in the field, education achieved according to Act No. 108/2006 Coll., On social services. Data collection was performed using a semi-structured questionnaire. The research showed that the education of social workers affects the level of knowledge and skills of social workers that they use in their profession. It was also found out whether the level of knowledge and skills is related to the length of their experience in the field, when it turned out that the skills of social workers are richer if they have longer experience in the field. This has also been confirmed by knowledge. It was also found that, for example, "conducting an open and comprehensible interview" and "respecting the client" is not influenced by education or the length of the internship. It was also found that the methods and techniques of social work are influenced by the length of practice only in the case of coaching and intercultural communication. The research also showed statistical significance between screening and the art of decision making. The benefit of this work is to find out what selected aspects, such as specific skills, knowledge, techniques and methods of social work, social workers work with foreigners in the Czech Republic and how these are influenced by the length of practice and education.
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Home-topia
Demovičová, Barbora ; Sit, Peter (referee) ; Macháček, Mikuláš (advisor)
Home—Topia is an ongoing contemporary art research and exhibiting project, putting focus on the current forms of migration, rooting, unrooting and life in between cultures. Home—Topia is examining the notion of home, sense of belonging and its connection to the physical space. Home — Topia is based on the assumption that various forms of mobility, migration and life on the move have become one of the basic characteristics of today's world. The primary goal of the Home — Topia project is the realization of the group exhibition of five Berlin- based artists with ties to the Czech and Slovak cultural environment: Zorka Lednárová, Katarína Hrušková, Petra Debnárová and the duo Julia Gryboś + Barbora Zentková. Following the dialogue between the artists, new artworks will be created and presented in Raum für Drastische Maßnahmen gallery in Berlin. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event will not take place until 2021. A secondary output of the project is the online platform home-topia.eu. This online platform makes publicly accessible the research trajectory, interviews, essays, bibliography and events archive. The project also included the interactive video installation in the Raum für Drastische Maßnahmen gallery in Berlin, which used elements of augmented reality. Two channels video installation was presented from 11th until 21st of June.
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Life of Ukrainians (Including other selected nationalities) their integration in the South Region
POLÁNKOVÁ, Oksana
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to describe the lives of Ukrainians, Russians and Kazakhs in the territory of the Czech Republic and their integration in the linguistic, economic, social and cultural spheres. Specifically, the thesis is focused on foreigners who live in the Czech Republic in the South Bohemian Region. I have chosen a target group of foreigners because I am a foreigner as well and this inspired me to describe the lives of my compatriots and other selected nationalities in the Czech Republic in the South Bohemian Region. At the same time, it was enriching for me to look into this issue with a different point of view and to remember my own experience. I have obtained the information from the informants via a qualitative research strategy along with a combination of a narrative interview and a structured interview. Target questions were focused on the foreigners{'} integration process in different fields into the Czech society from their subjective point of view and on their personal reasons for migration to the Czech Republic. Other questions were focused on how Ukrainians, Russians and Kazakhs perceive their lives in the territory of the Czech Republic. For the data collection, I have used in my thesis a technique of snowball sampling. Altogether, 10 foreigners residing legally in the South Bohemian Region participated in the survey. It was possible to stop the research at the number of 10 participants, as the respondents{'} answers were repeated in the interviews. To process the results, I have used a grounded theory along with a coding method. It is obvious from the research results that every foreigner is going through the integration process, although each informant had different reasons for migration and the results of integration both positive and negative. It is clear the foreigners are not native speakers in the given language area, therefore they often face up to prejudices or discrimination, however in the field of culture, there are new opportunities to learn the Czech culture, customs and traditions. In the sphere of economics, the foreigners use different means or possibilities to obtain a job and their self-sufficiency. In the social field, they have the opportunity to meet and communicate with the local population, as well as with their countrymen. It was interesting to see how the process of integration is going on by each informant, although they all have a lot in common and have to overcome similar obstacles.
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Life of Ukrainians (Including other selected nationalities) their integration in the South Region
LISOVOL, Oksana
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to describe the lives of Ukrainians, Russians and Kazakhs in the territory of the Czech Republic and their integration in the linguistic, economic, social and cultural spheres. Specifically, the thesis is focused on foreigners who live in the Czech Republic in the South Bohemian Region. I have chosen a target group of foreigners because I am a foreigner as well and this inspired me to describe the lives of my compatriots and other selected nationalities in the Czech Republic in the South Bohemian Region. At the same time, it was enriching for me to look into this issue with a different point of view and to remember my own experience. I have obtained the information from the informants via a qualitative research strategy along with a combination of a narrative interview and a structured interview. Target questions were focused on the foreigners' integration process in different fields into the Czech society from their subjective point of view and on their personal reasons for migration to the Czech Republic. Other questions were focused on how Ukrainians, Russians and Kazakhs perceive their lives in the territory of the Czech Republic. For the data collection, I have used in my thesis a technique of snowball sampling. Altogether, 10 foreigners residing legally in the South Bohemian Region participated in the survey. It was possible to stop the research at the number of 10 participants, as the respondents' answers were repeated in the interviews. To process the results, I have used a grounded theory along with a coding method. It is obvious from the research results that every foreigner is going through the integration process, although each informant had different reasons for migration and the results of integration both positive and negative. It is clear the foreigners are not native speakers in the given language area, therefore they often face up to prejudices or discrimination, however in the field of culture, there are new opportunities to learn the Czech culture, customs and traditions. In the sphere of economics, the foreigners use different means or possibilities to obtain a job and their self-sufficiency. In the social field, they have the opportunity to meet and communicate with the local population, as well as with their countrymen. It was interesting to see how the process of integration is going on by each informant, although they all have a lot in common and have to overcome similar obstacles.
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Emotional Cartography
Rygálová, Monika ; Pfeiffer, Jan (referee) ; Sterec, Pavel (advisor)
The work aims to artistically compile perception of maps as a fact, what let us think about The world - how we know it from the map. I work with data, which I gain by displaying technology – eye tracking, which helps me to record track of moving eyes during watching any kind of picture. The observations will be people from different places such a place of stay etc. Gained data I am going to use as a study, which I will componate to maps and different vizualizations of world, countries etc. "Where i have not ever been before, it does not exist" – is idea of percepting world, wich I also work with on that project. Study will contain all aspect of perceiving maps and systematicly shown world related to the person, his memories to that place, fyzical contact and his impact in his scale person versus a the world.
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Perception of a Strangeness as an Inner Barrier of Integration
Tučková, Anna ; Kandert, Josef (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee)
This work deals with the question whether the way one understands his strangeness can influence possibility of integrating migrants into the majority. The work presents some theories of personal and ethnical identity in the tradition of social constructivism. In these theories the identity is usually constructed in the opposition to strange or other, but can strange or other be the basis for the construction of one's identity? This problem is approached from the stand point of the basic sociological theories of stranger (Simmel, Schütz, Park, Siu, Bauman). Based on these theories this work argues that stranger can be an identity. The following analysis of in-depth interviews shows if and how is identity of stranger manifested in everyday life of migrants.
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Back to the Tribe's Womb: Tendencies in Contemporary Culture
Dvořák, Jan ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
Michel Maffesoli and Zygmunt Bauman add the traits of Benjamin's flâneur to the (neo-)nomad, namely his "flâneur" gaze and his relation to commodities. But in the concept of nomad these traits gain specific nature - on the field of fashion they transform nomad into migrant, who is capable of creative work with vanitas. Nomad as a travelling flâneur is a stranger-guest and becomes a tourist, willingly getting lost in the city and voluntarily being surprised by unexpected encounters. Tourists relation to his memories could be described with Benjamin's description of mémoire involontaire as a revived punctum. A tourist prepares his memories like a nicely descending ruins. Souvenir is his materialised memory. It's not only a duplicated plastic Eiffel tower, but a magic artifact. It's a collective aura, what's on Benjamin's mind when he writes about aura regression. The private aura comes instead, turning things to talismans, reenchanting the world. The era of postmechanical reproduction reminds one, that there is a way to reproduce not just mechanically but biologically: a bricolage remix is made. Souvenirs descend and take shape of hommogenic rummage which reveals the fundamental form of postmodern metamorphosis: recyclation. This metamorphosis can finally be used when analyzing the settler turn into nomad...
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Once upon a time, there was a stranger on the road
Vondráčková, Kristýna ; Listíková, Renáta (advisor) ; Ébert-Zeminová, Catherine (referee)
v anglickém jazyce: This thesis mainly analyzes the five-part novel Gargantua and Pantagruel written by the French author Francois Rabelais. Emphasis is based particularly on an inclusion of Rabelais's work in historical and literary context of the period of transformation between medieval and Renaissance society. More specifically, it deals with the author's humanist opinion and his critique of contemporary society, which is the main line of the work itself. The aim of our thesis is especially an attempt to outline the various possible meanings of the terms « road or path » and « stranger » in Rabelais's work and explain the role of these thematic concepts in the author's concept of criticism of society.
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