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"Everyone around them is an enemy" - Czech men and women in the Israeli Sar-El volunteer program
No full textThe thesis deals with the Israeli volunteer program Sar-El, which includes unarmed service at Israeli military bases in the uniform of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and the historical subjectivity of its participants. Using the oral history method, the author reconstructs the form of partial aspects of the program and searches for the historical subjectivity of the narrators from a post-positivist perspective. He deals with the perception of time and space on the base, the work activities performed by the volunteers, their relations with the IDF members, the gamification of the service or the images of the enemy. In the section dedicated to historical subjectivity, the author analyses narratives related to family history, the Holocaust, Czechoslovak arms aid to Israel, German-Jewish relations, and literary and audiovisual works. At the end of the thesis, the graduate answers questions about the subjective experience of the volunteers and their perception of the program
The former military area Ralsko
No full textThis diploma thesis deals with the topic of the Soviet army arrival and its impact on the everydayness of residents living in VÚ Ralsko. Using the method of oral history interviews records and its analysis the author concludes. With the help the metod record oral history interviews and analyzing them using symbolic antropology the author draws the conclusion that the presence of the Soviet army had an impact on the everydayness at severeal points. After the arrival of the Soviet military divisions, CSLA soldiers and their families had to leave their homes. They did not loose just their homes but also friends and jobs. The question of safety is a contentious subject. E.g. Even today, the ordinary residents of VÚ Ralsko speculate on the presence of nuclear weapons. Other issues were travel abroad and or mushrooming in VVP. The cohabitation of the Soviets and the ordinary residents was problematic and it took place on two locations - Housing estate Letná a Hradčany. The more relaxed place was Hradčany. The Soviet soldiers did not have a solid military morale and could make life unpleasant to the residents of Ralsko. On the other hand, on the basis of their presence, the residents were given the opportunity to supply a diverse assortment. Even so, there were conflicts in stores where wives of officers..
Cooperation of Border guards with civic inhabitants in 60's and 70's era: example of Cheb region
No full textThe diploma thesis deals with theme of collaboration Border Guard troops with the civilian sector its focusing on 60's and 70's era. The topic is an overview compiled since 1945, because of better context. Work aims to map and describe the process whereby the collaborating fifth brigade of border guards in the geographic region Cheb region with residents and how the civilians had been involved to guard state borders. The author based primarily on archival material stored in the Security Services Archive in Brno - Kanice and the previously published literature. The author also used interviews with former professional officers. These interviews compiled by the method of oral history. The main criteria were chosen on the number of assistant border guards, as well as young border guards and the number of persons who were attempting to cross the state border detained for using the civilian sector. But also, many other factors were considered. The result of this work is the finding that the border guard cooperation with the civilian sector shows an upward trend in the period from the fifties to the late seventies. The highlight of this cooperation was the second half of the seventies. In the sixties, and especially the second half of the sixties, the brigade was forced to intensify the use of civilians..
Pořadový krok jako disciplinační technika těla
Full text linkThis text inquires into the problem of cadenced step as the disciplinary technique of the body, according to theories of Marcel Mauss and Michel Foucault. Author explores historical core of military body techniques in social context, developed by Dutch army reformers Counts of Nassau during 1590s and refined by the Prussian military in 1740s. Author interprets cadenced step inside framework of shifting paradigm of power, as Foucault analyses the sequence of three stages of power emerging during european Early modernity
Lieutenant versus Marshal. Double Challenge to Post-Vaubanian Tradition in the Texts of Scottish Military Engineer Charles Bisset, 1751–1778
No full textThis text represents a study in cultural history of war and warfare and adheres more specifically to the genre of historical anthropology. It deals with a problem of concept of so called crisis of permanent fortification, commencing in the period after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle which terminated the War of the Austrian Succession. One of the very few critics of this new concept, which favoured field operations and decisive battles over established methods of siege warfare, was Scottish military engineer Charles Bisset, an author of highly advanced book on theory of fortification, published in 1751, which offered a way out of the perceived crisis. Despite being protected by the supreme commander of British armed forces, William, Duke of Cumberland, Bisset’s propositions were unexpectedly and unceremoniously rejected and he was discharged from the corps of military engineers. In the absence of almost any documentary sources, this text attempts to offer an anthropologic analysis of such abrupt and most unusual ending of Bisset’s career, linking it with lasting and deep cultural trauma associated with the subterranean and pyrotechnical dimension of siege warfare, which represented a major focus of Bisset’s work.This text represents a study in cultural history of war and warfare and adheres more specifically to the genre of historical anthropology. It deals with a problem of concept of so called crisis of permanent fortification, commencing in the period after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle which terminated the War of the Austrian Succession. One of the very few critics of this new concept, which favoured field operations and decisive battles over established methods of siege warfare, was Scottish military engineer Charles Bisset, an author of highly advanced book on theory of fortification, published in 1751, which offered a way out of the perceived crisis. Despite being protected by the supreme commander of British armed forces, William, Duke of Cumberland, Bisset’s propositions were unexpectedly and unceremoniously rejected and he was discharged from the corps of military engineers. In the absence of almost any documentary sources, this text attempts to offer an anthropologic analysis of such abrupt and most unusual ending of Bisset’s career, linking it with lasting and deep cultural trauma associated with the subterranean and pyrotechnical dimension of siege warfare, which represented a major focus of Bisset’s work
"Everyone around them is an enemy" - Czech men and women in the Israeli Sar-El volunteer program
No full textPráce se zabývá izraelským dobrovolnickým programem Sar-El, který zahrnuje službu beze zbraně na izraelských vojenských základnách v uniformě izraelských obranných sil (IDF), a historickou subjektivitou jeho účastnic a účastníků. Autor pomocí metody orální historie rekonstruuje podobu dílčích aspektů programu a táže se po historické subjektivitě narátorek a narátorů z post-pozitivistické perspektivy. Věnuje se vnímání času a prostoru na základně, pracovním činnostem vykonávaným dobrovolníky, jejich vztahům s příslušníky IDF, gamifikaci služby nebo obrazům nepřítele. V části věnované historické subjektivitě autor analyzuje narace spojené s rodinnou historií, holokaustem, československou zbrojní pomocí Izraeli, německo-židovskými vztahy nebo literární a audiovizuální tvorbou. V závěru práce odpovídá diplomant na otázky týkající se subjektivní zkušenosti dobrovolníků a jejich vnímání programu.The thesis deals with the Israeli volunteer program Sar-El, which includes unarmed service at Israeli military bases in the uniform of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and the historical subjectivity of its participants. Using the oral history method, the author reconstructs the form of partial aspects of the program and searches for the historical subjectivity of the narrators from a post-positivist perspective. He deals with the perception of time and space on the base, the work activities performed by the volunteers, their relations with the IDF members, the gamification of the service or the images of the enemy. In the section dedicated to historical subjectivity, the author analyses narratives related to family history, the Holocaust, Czechoslovak arms aid to Israel, German-Jewish relations, and literary and audiovisual works. At the end of the thesis, the graduate answers questions about the subjective experience of the volunteers and their perception of the program.Programme Oral History and Contemporary HistoryProgram Orální historie - soudobé dějinyFakulta humanitních studiíFaculty of Humanitie
Lieutenant versus Marshal. Double Challenge to Post-Vaubanian Tradition in the Texts of Scottish Military Engineer Charles Bisset, 1751–1778
No full textThis text represents a study in cultural history of war and warfare and adheres more specifically to the genre of historical anthropology. It deals with a problem of concept of so called crisis of permanent fortification, commencing in the period after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle which terminated the War of the Austrian Succession. One of the very few critics of this new concept, which favoured field operations and decisive battles over established methods of siege warfare, was Scottish military engineer Charles Bisset, an author of highly advanced book on theory of fortification, published in 1751, which offered a way out of the perceived crisis. Despite being protected by the supreme commander of British armed forces, William, Duke of Cumberland, Bisset’s propositions were unexpectedly and unceremoniously rejected and he was discharged from the corps of military engineers. In the absence of almost any documentary sources, this text attempts to offer an anthropologic analysis of such abrupt and most unusual ending of Bisset’s career, linking it with lasting and deep cultural trauma associated with the subterranean and pyrotechnical dimension of siege warfare, which represented a major focus of Bisset’s work.This text represents a study in cultural history of war and warfare and adheres more specifically to the genre of historical anthropology. It deals with a problem of concept of so called crisis of permanent fortification, commencing in the period after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle which terminated the War of the Austrian Succession. One of the very few critics of this new concept, which favoured field operations and decisive battles over established methods of siege warfare, was Scottish military engineer Charles Bisset, an author of highly advanced book on theory of fortification, published in 1751, which offered a way out of the perceived crisis. Despite being protected by the supreme commander of British armed forces, William, Duke of Cumberland, Bisset’s propositions were unexpectedly and unceremoniously rejected and he was discharged from the corps of military engineers. In the absence of almost any documentary sources, this text attempts to offer an anthropologic analysis of such abrupt and most unusual ending of Bisset’s career, linking it with lasting and deep cultural trauma associated with the subterranean and pyrotechnical dimension of siege warfare, which represented a major focus of Bisset’s work
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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