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This Thesis called "Amenity migration and regional identity in the Prachatice region" looks into comparing the strenght of regional identity of inhabitants and amenity migrants in the field of interest area ORP Prachatice. Amenity migration is quite new term that can be translated as "pleasure migration". This specific type of migration stems from the hum desire to live in areas with high quality environment. This usualy includes the transition of population from urban to countryside environment. For the use of this Thesis the area of interest was chosen area of ORP Prachatice that consist of three executive offices - PÚ Netolice, PÚ Prachatice and PÚ Volary. The whole area of interest offers on a quite narrow territory three different environments. The aim of this Thesis is the comparison of the level of regional identity among inhabitants in relation to the diverse environment and also the comparison of the strenght of regional identity between the group of permanent inhabitants and amenity migrants. The results of the Thesis which are being evaluated from the questionare research are aiming at the mobility of the population, evaluating the quality of elements of surrounding environment, regional symbolism, the positive and negative side of the region, inhabitant awareness and the subject of...

My thesis proposes a theory of relational identity development in Chicana literature. Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera offers an interpretation of Chicana identity that is largely based on historical models and mythology, which many scholars have found useful in interpreting Chicana literature. However, I contend that another text, Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, not only illustrates the need for an alternative paradigm for considering identity development, but in fact offers such an alternative. I argue that Cisneros shows a model for relational identity development, wherein the individual develops in the context of her community and is not determined solely by elements of myth or genealogy. In questioning the historical paradigm of identity development, I examine three key aspects associated with Chicana identity development: gender, home, and language. Employing the theories of Édouard Glissant, I discuss how individual identity development is better understood in terms of relationships and experience rather than historical models. For Chicanas, the roles of women have largely been interpreted as predetermined, set by the mythic figures La Malinche and La Virgen de Guadalupe. However, Cisneros's work shows that this historical tradition is less fruitful in understanding identity than recognizing individuals' experience in context of their relationships. With this communal understanding established, I question the common associations of home and Chicana identity. I argue that Cisneros challenges our very concept of home as she engages and counters the notions of theorist Gaston Bachelard. The idea of a house is metaphorical, becoming a space of communal belonging rather than a physical structure to separate individuals. Finally, I consider how both spoken and written language contribute to relational identity development. I argue that Cisneros's use of language demonstrates that not only does language provide the means for development within a community, but also the means for creation within that society. The theoretical implications of such a relational identity construct are not only an expansion of what is entailed in Chicana identity, but an invitation for broadening the community of theoretical discussion surrounding Chicana literature.

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Die Auflösung traditioneller Konzepte der Identitätsbildung, insbesondere entlang nationaler Grenzen, wirft zunehmend die Frage nach neuen Gemeinschaften und Abgrenzungen, nach deren Wirkungsweisen und Durchlässigkeit auf. Ein Konzept, das sich aus dieser Frage entwickelt hat, ist die Idee der »Aktiven Grenzen«. Dieses Buch untersucht, wie sich Identitäten, Öffentlichkeiten und kollektive Erinnerungen in grenzüberschreitenden Gebieten verändern und leistet damit einen Beitrag zum breiten soziologischen Kontext der Europäisierung. Anhand von Fallstudien über das deutsch-tschechisch-österreichische und das tschechisch-polnisch-deutsche Grenzgebiet stellt der Band Befunde zur grenzüberschreitenden Zusammenarbeit vor. Diese werden mit Hilfe des Konzepts der aktiven Grenzen interpretiert, das Grenzen als eine Quelle multikultureller Kompetenz und kognitiver Fähigkeiten betrachtet. Sowohl territoriale als auch symbolische Grenzen sollten von den Europäern als spezifische kulturelle Formen behandelt werden. Aktive Grenzen ermöglichen ein noch nie dagewesenes Maß an grenzüberschreitender Zusammenarbeit und Integration und fördern ein besseres Verständnis von Unterschieden, anstatt sie wieder einzubetten oder neue zu schaffen. Dementsprechend sind die Autoren der Ansicht, dass aktive Grenzen mehr dynamische, offene und widerstandsfähige Gesellschaften fördern und eine entscheidende Voraussetzung für den Erfolg des europäischen Integrationsprojekts darstellen.:Prolog: Identitäten – Gedächtnis – Sprache – Grenzen Einleitung: Euroregionen, aktive Grenzen und Europäisierung Karel B. Müller 1. Aktive Grenzen und die Europäisierung des öffentlichen Raums. Wie »Gleiches« auch »Anderes« sein kann und umgekehrt Luděk Fráně, Daniel Kný, Karel B. Müller 2. Grenzen und Identität. Der Ort, an dem Europa lebt! Karel B. Müller, Luděk Fráně 3. Grenzen und Sprache. Kleine Missverständnisse, große Probleme und die Früchte der Mehrsprachigkeit Kamil Fleissner, Karel B. Müller 4. Grenzen und Gedächtnis. Von historischen Wurzeln zu dialogischen Pfaden Abschließende Betrachtungen – I ja za tobą Polak Quellen und Literaturverzeichnis / The dissolution of traditional concepts of identity formation, especially along national borders, increasingly raises the question of new communities and demarcations, of their modes of action and permeability. One concept that has emerged from this question is the idea of „active borders“. This book explores how identities, public spheres and collective memories are being transformed in cross-border areas, contributing to the broad sociological context of Europeanization. Offering case studies on the German-Czech-Austrian, and Czech-Polish-German borderlands, the book introduces original primary data on cross-border cooperation. This data is interpreted using the concept of active borders, which approaches borders as a source of multicultural competence and cognitive capacity. In turn, the authors argue that Europeans need to treat borders, both territorial and symbolic, as specific cultural forms. Active borders allow an unprecedented level of cross-border cooperation and integration, and foster a better understanding of differences, rather than re-embedding them or constructing others. Accordingly, the authors contend that active borders promote more dynamic, open and resilient societies, and represent crucial prerequisites for the success of the European integration project.:Prolog: Identitäten – Gedächtnis – Sprache – Grenzen Einleitung: Euroregionen, aktive Grenzen und Europäisierung Karel B. Müller 1. Aktive Grenzen und die Europäisierung des öffentlichen Raums. Wie »Gleiches« auch »Anderes« sein kann und umgekehrt Luděk Fráně, Daniel Kný, Karel B. Müller 2. Grenzen und Identität. Der Ort, an dem Europa lebt! Karel B. Müller, Luděk Fráně 3. Grenzen und Sprache. Kleine Missverständnisse, große Probleme und die Früchte der Mehrsprachigkeit Kamil Fleissner, Karel B. Müller 4. Grenzen und Gedächtnis. Von historischen Wurzeln zu dialogischen Pfaden Abschließende Betrachtungen – I ja za tobą Polak Quellen und Literaturverzeichnis

In the early 1990s, a series of gruesome murders of young women in Ciudad Juárez, a city located in the U.S.-Mexico border, shook the political landscape of Mexico. A decade later, the strange and violent murders, known as the feminicides or feminicidios of Juárez, reached international infamy across hemispheres and continents. During this time, the city and the cases became the subjects of an extensive body of scholarship and of any imaginable artistic medium (narrative, poetry, theater, performance, music, and so on). Eventually, the complexity and overexposure of the cases and the sociopolitical conditions of Ciudad Juárez placed them at the center of a paradoxical debate: on one hand, the work of activists, feminists, and scholars of social sciences (like anthropologists and sociologists) studied the murders as a localized example of a larger phenomenon of mysoginistic violence; on the other, journalistic and media investigations of Juárez understood the murders as the products of specific agents (serial killers, murderers, drug cartels, amongst others) and the fractures within the Mexican Nation-State. And yet, despite the expansion and overlapping of these discourses, fictional representations of Juárez remained tangential to this intricate debate. Thus, this research explores the different ways in which writers, artists, and filmmakers deployed and negotiated existent perspectives on the feminicides within fictional environments. As a result of the vast amount of published work available on Ciudad Juárez, I narrowed the objects of my research through a transnational scope. The resulting sample of texts transverses borders (Mexico and the U.S.), continents (Latin America and Europe), genres (fiction and nonfiction), and mediums (literature and film). The first chapter explores the connections of Sergio González Rodríguez’s Huesos en el desierto and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 through the theoretical framework of the possible worlds of fiction. The second chapter moves to issues of representation, gender, and race through the analysis of two novels written by Chicana scholars: Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders and Stella Pope Duarte’s If I Die in Juárez. Finally, the third chapter focuses on film representations of Juárez and the feminicides in the form of Gregory Nava’s Bordertown and Carlos Carrera’s Backyard/El Traspatio. / text

MRŇKA, Jaromír: Proměny společnosti v pohraničí českých zemí na příkladu okresů Šumperku a Zábřeh 1945-1960. (Social Transformation of the Czech Borderlands as Illustrated by Districts Šumperk and Zábřeh 1945-1960). Master Thesis. Prague: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Institute of Economic and Social History, 2013, 195 p. Based on research into regional context, the thesis "Social Transformation of the Czech Borderlands as Illustrated by Districts Šumperk and Zábřeh 1945-1960" contributes to a deeper understanding of the process of constituting a new society in the Czech borderlands. The research field is defined on the one hand by the structural aspects of demographic changes following the Second World War (the forced expulsion of the German population, the impact and consequences of unorganized and organized colonization process), on the other by the constitution and transformation of the communist rule, including the deep crisis from 1953 to 1957. In observing the changes of dominant and authoritative discourses on the one hand and the language of the acteurs on the other, the thesis identifies core values and images which contributed to the stabilization or destabilization of communist rule. The shared vision, enabling the mobilization of the society, was the...

This thesis examines how the law dealt with international fugitives. It focuses on formal extradition and the cross-border abduction of wanted criminals by police officers and other state officials. Debates over extradition and abduction reflected important issues of state power and civil liberty, and were shaped by currents of thought circulating throughout the imperial, Atlantic, and common law worlds. Debates over extradition involved questioning the very basis of international law. They also raised difficult questions about civil liberties and human rights. Throughout this period escaped American slaves and other groups made claims for what we would now call refugee status, and argued that their surrender violated codes of law and ideas of justice that transcended the colonies and even the wider British Empire. Such claims sparked a decades-long debate in North America and Europe over how to codify refugee protections. Ultimately, Britain used its imperial power to force Canada to accept such safeguards. Yet even as the formal extradition system developed, an informal system of police abductions operated in the Canadian-American borderlands. This system defied formal law, but it also manifested sophisticated local ideas about community justice and transnational legal order. This thesis argues that extradition and abduction must be understood within three overlapping contexts. The first is the ethos of liberal transnationalism that permeated all levels of state officials in British North America/Canada. This view largely prioritised the erosion of domestic barriers to international cooperation over the protection of individual liberty. It was predicated in large part on the idea of a common North American civilization. The second context is Canada’s place in the British Empire. Extradition and abduction highlight both how British North America/Canada often expounded views on legal order radically different from Britain, but also that even after Confederation in 1867 the empire retained real power to shape Canadian policy. The final context is international law and international legal order. Both extradition and abduction were aspects of law on an international and transnational level. As a result, this thesis examines the processes of migration, adoption, and adaptation of international law.

This thesis examines how the law dealt with international fugitives. It focuses on formal extradition and the cross-border abduction of wanted criminals by police officers and other state officials. Debates over extradition and abduction reflected important issues of state power and civil liberty, and were shaped by currents of thought circulating throughout the imperial, Atlantic, and common law worlds. Debates over extradition involved questioning the very basis of international law. They also raised difficult questions about civil liberties and human rights. Throughout this period escaped American slaves and other groups made claims for what we would now call refugee status, and argued that their surrender violated codes of law and ideas of justice that transcended the colonies and even the wider British Empire. Such claims sparked a decades-long debate in North America and Europe over how to codify refugee protections. Ultimately, Britain used its imperial power to force Canada to accept such safeguards. Yet even as the formal extradition system developed, an informal system of police abductions operated in the Canadian-American borderlands. This system defied formal law, but it also manifested sophisticated local ideas about community justice and transnational legal order. This thesis argues that extradition and abduction must be understood within three overlapping contexts. The first is the ethos of liberal transnationalism that permeated all levels of state officials in British North America/Canada. This view largely prioritised the erosion of domestic barriers to international cooperation over the protection of individual liberty. It was predicated in large part on the idea of a common North American civilization. The second context is Canada’s place in the British Empire. Extradition and abduction highlight both how British North America/Canada often expounded views on legal order radically different from Britain, but also that even after Confederation in 1867 the empire retained real power to shape Canadian policy. The final context is international law and international legal order. Both extradition and abduction were aspects of law on an international and transnational level. As a result, this thesis examines the processes of migration, adoption, and adaptation of international law.

In the field of borderland studies, both theoretical and historical works have contributed to a growing body of analysis that seeks both qualitatively and quantitatively to define the mechanics of group construction and interaction along the U.S./Mexican border. The majority of these works have focused on either, historically, an apology for the Anglo-American conquest of the border region and thus a minimization of the pluralistic composition of border culture or, more recently, a theoretical deconstruction of the colonial border dynamic which favors the minority contributions and condition, notably in Hispanic and Chicano studies.In both cases, the nuances and regional specificities of interaction are downplayed in favor of encompassing theoretical or historical positionings. While not seeking to devalue or to disregard this rich analytical heritage, our thesis strives to expand upon the existing body of borderland study work by focusing on the region of San Diego, California during the formative period between the late 18th and early 19th centuries using recent developments in multiple disciplines as well as revisiting the canonic sources.Our objective is to answer questions such as the following: In the light of current research, and viewed through the prism of representations of personal and community identity constructs, can the historic regional culture of San Diego be viewed as unique and essentially hybrid in nature? If so, how does the revision of this historic culture affect the construction and interpretation of contemporary borderland theories as it applies to this site? What are the implications and stakes for a rapidly developing region - culturally, economically, and politically?In order to answer these questions, a historical contextualization has been established that focuses on the themes of hybridity and mixity. A detailed description and analysis are then made of the regional population and the physical living and working spaces created by it, both in terms of general trends and specific case studies of emblematic architectural site and key historic figures during each of the successive periods of regional governance: Spanish, Mexican and United States. The results of these studies are examined through the optic of canonic historical viewpoints and contemporary theoretical paradigms of borderland study, subjecting them to a broader discussion and placing them within the context of current demographic, socio-economic, and political change. The results of our study favors a complexification of the analysis of interactions and identity constructs along the U.S.-Mexican border, with increasing recognition of hybrid constructs in local spheres.