Essays about: "Czechia"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the word Czechia.

  1. 1. Marketplace in Ostrava – Market within market

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Agáta Kocirova; [2024]
    Keywords : marketplace; market; The Czech Republic; Czechia; Ostrava; shadow architecture; placemaking; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : The market has existed since the time people started trading. In the Czech Republic, and in Ostrava, the history of markets was influenced by a number of circumstances during the past which led into the present situation in the city. READ MORE

  3. 2. “When you see me, weep” : The archaeology of the hunger stones of Europe.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Ivan Odbratt; [2023]
    Keywords : Hunger stones; Climate change; Memory; Archaeology;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the phenomenon of hunger stones and their resurgence due to climate change-induced droughts, shedding light on their evolving societal significance. The initial focus lies on understanding the origins of the term and exploring how humanity has historically adapted to and remembered climatic transformations. READ MORE

  4. 3. Borderland Peripheries. from dead end - to new beginning

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Maya Kranner; [2023]
    Keywords : Rural renewal; cross-border initiatives; periphery; social sustainability; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : It’s been 34 years ago now since the iron curtain has parted the European continent and its inhabitants in an East and a West. The analysed area for the following thesis on the border between northern Austria and southern Czechia gives a case example of a region, that is still suffering from an era, where one sky-direction has been erased from people’s everyday living and thinking – leaving the border areas as a dead end for either country. READ MORE

  5. 4. Wake the Sleepwalkers! An Exploratory Analysis of Ontological (In)Security in Czechia and Slovakia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Kathryn Rose Dolan; [2023]
    Keywords : Ontological Security; Critical Situations; Biographical Narrative; Czechia; Slovakia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In light of the current situation in the EU, after the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine, Europe is undoubtedly facing a critical situation. This thesis conducts an exploratory analysis of ontological (in)security in Czechia and Slovakia to investigate a region where very few academics have analyzed it from an ontological security perspective. READ MORE

  6. 5. Rainbow-Washing on Screen: Perceptions of 21st Century Popular Media Representations of Queer Identities in a Comparison between Sweden and Czechia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Elizabeth Hythova; [2022]
    Keywords : queer representation; stereotypes in popular media; social constructionism; heteronormativity; othering of minorities; queer theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how queer people perceive queer representations in popular media (film and TV) produced in recent years and how such representations affect queer people’s identity and self-perception, as well as how they mirror and reproduce heteronormative understandings of queerness. A cultural comparison between Czechia and Sweden in perceptions of heteronormativity and queer representations and media is also made. READ MORE