This paper is about a process of a nascency of new doctors, and how it is possible to approach this topic from the viewpoint of social anthropologist. As a starting point, I use actor-network theory, which is one of the social science paradigms focusing on materiality. I consider it (on the basis of work by Bruno Latour and other scholars, who are dealing with this field), to be a remarkable actor in matters connected with human action, and thus an appropriate subject for an anthropological inquiry. Since the topic concerns medicine in the Czech Republic nowadays, I contribute to the knowledge of medical anthropology, which does not have such a strong academic base here as in the Anglo-Saxon world. Special attention is dedicated to a detailed description of activities leading to the formation of the text of this thesis. Reflexivity, on which I put emphasis, shall serve as the foundation of the context of genesis of an anthropological knowledge and also to describe the ethical concerns of the research. The main methods are observation and semi-structured in-depth interviews with twelve informants, who were medicine students or medicine faculty graduates.

This study is investigating how preschool educators’ interactions in and with differentenvironments, with a specific focus on the preschool yard, become meaningful for theeducator’s actions in the preschool activities. The questions aimed to be answered in thestudy are: • How do educators’ actions in preschools develop in relation to: - the perceived, the conceived and the lived environment? - the preschool yards environments? The study used qualative method with semi-structured group interviews in three differentpre-schools. The preschool educators who participated in the study answered anddiscussed questions about environments in the preschool, with specific focus on thepreschool yard. With inspiration from “Production of space” (Lefvebre, 1991) the empirical data of thefocus groups were analyzed, and Nordin-Hultman`s (2004) concept of “becoming” is partof the discussions meaning making. This study is investigating and discussing how preschool teachers are acting and becomingin relation to the environment where the preschool activities take place. The results showhow interaction between material, mental and social dimensions become important for theteachers sense of opportunities and challenges to develop their pedagogical activities. Safety, socialization and design of in- and outdoor environments are some of the areasemphasized in these relations.

Metal music is a term that currently serves as a designation for a plethora of different subgenres. The main goal of this work is to find a process that is shared between given subgenres of metal music. The search is based on the non-essentialist position of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of difference. For this reason, the first focus of the work is extensive excursion into this philosophy, to which it devotes it's first chapter. In it, through analysis of Difference and Repetition, it creates a thought and conceptual basis for the processual perception of ideas as multiplicities, a position that makes it possible to examine the process of becoming. From this position, the second chapter focuses on metal music and it's main characteristic quality - heaviness, and examines the ways in which music can become heavy. Keywords: Gilles Deleuze, metal music, heaviness, difference, becoming, multiplicity, intensity

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[pt] Esta dissertação é o resultado de uma experiência artístico-literária. Buscou-se, no texto, investigar o desejo e o percurso de construção de literatura referente à atuação de um sujeito que desdobra o trabalho intelectual em fabricação artística. Apostou-se, então, na noção de acontecimento para compreender a produção de subjetividade que se manifesta em um primeiro experimento de escrita literária, consequência de um devir-escritor. De modo ficcional, sob a forma de um romance, o espaço do texto foi ocupado por uma escrita criativa de fôlego teórico. Na metaficção produzida, feito a lenda árabe de Sherazade, que narra para não morrer, o narrador-protagonista empenha-se em redescobrir e registrar a história de sua falecida avó, imigrante sírio-libanesa, a fim de que, na condição material da linguagem, ela também não morra. Na trajetória de entraves entre a imprecisão da memória e as artimanhas da imaginação, o personagem, enquanto não encontra a verdadeira história de seus antepassados, vê-se diante de seu primeiro impulso de escrevê-la como se fosse um romance. Entretanto, à medida que conhece os artifícios da escrita artística, depara-se com a relação conflituosa de sua família com o trânsito entre línguas. Assim, com o uso da metalinguagem como estratégia de escrita, buscou-se enfatizar, neste estudo, o desvendamento de um processo narrativo. Nesse contexto, este romance-dissertação constitui-se também como uma pesquisa-intervenção, que enfatiza a operacionalização do pensamento teórico-crítico através da escrita ficcional na contemporaneidade. / [en] This thesis is the result of an artistic-literary experience. In this production, the aim was to investigate the desire and the creation process manifested in a person who develops the intellectual work through the artistic fabrication. In this open space that promotes freedom of creativity, this study is based on the concept of event to understand the production of subjectivity that appears as a first experiment in literary writing, result of a becoming-writer process. Fictionally, in a novel format, the text was built up by a creative writing with a theoretical complexity. In the metafiction, inspired by the arabian legend of Scheherazade, the narrator-protagonist wants to discover and to write down the past of his deceased grandmother, syrian-lebanese immigrant, so that she preserves alive at least in the materiality of literature. In the movement between the imprecise memory and the powerful imagination, while the main character can not find the truth, he decides to write the story of their ancestors as if it was a novel. However, he needs to confront the conflictual relationship of his family with the languages while knows the strategies of artistic writing. Therefore, in this study, the metalanguage was a literary resource used to write about a narrative processes. In addition, this text is a research-intervention that wishes to emphasise the full scope of the theoretical and critical thought through the potency of fiction writing in the contemporaneity.

(EN) In the last of his finished works, Nietzsche presents a special sort of retrospect of his past and, at the same time, prospect of his future. The aim of the thesis is to examine the possibility that Nietzsche attempts to present some of the results of his preceeding inquires in practice and provides readers with a guideline for creation of practical philosophy in accord with their own constitution, being aware of external and internal dangers of the project. By means of an exemplary self-interpretation, Nietzsche demonstrates the process of human self-becoming.

Denna studie fokuserar på män och deras upplevelser vid brytpunkten föräldrablivande och dess påverkan på livets rutiner. Fokus ligger på karriär och identitet och eventuella kompromisser inom områdena. Tidigare forskning påvisar att kvinnor statistiskt sett kompromissar mer än män med sin karriär, sett till uttagna vab- och föräldradagar, men tar inte upp just upplevelserna kring dessa kompromisser. På så vis upptäcktes en forskningslucka som ledde till frågeställningen: Hur upplever män sitt eget föräldrablivande och eventuella kompromisser i relation till den egna identiteten och karriären? Syftet blev således att genom kvalitativa intervjuer åskådliggöra och vidare studera informanternas upplevelser av eventuella kompromisser till följd av föräldrablivande gällande identitet och karriär. De teoretiska begrepp som använts är STF-modellens tre system; individ, sociala samt miljö- och samhälleliga systemet, roller och livskarriär samt brytpunkter, rutiner och pragmatiskt rationella val. Resultatet visar att männens liv och rutiner påverkats och förändrats till följd av föräldrablivandet. Fritidsintressen, socialt umgänge och yrkesmässiga prioriteringar och prestationskrav har minskat. Dessa omformas i och med att självbilden transformerats med ett nytt syfte och fokus. Den mest centrala slutsatsen i studien är att om justeringar i karriär och identitetsutövning ska upplevas som kompromisser behöver en förväntan utifrån finnas. När dessa förväntningar saknas upplevs istället justeringarna som aktiva val till följd av ändrade värderingar och prioriteringar.

The tourism industry is both large and growing, with private and public actors investing heavily in the commodification of places to travel to, supporting individuals with the wealth to do so, to be in different places for short time periods. Correspondingly, popular discourses and research within tourism studies have arisen, looking at attitudes and social and environmental impacts drawn along delineations of the tourist and the host and spatially enclosed tourist places or ‘destinations’.  In this thesis, I seek instead to focus on how we might be different in places. Using Deleuze and Guattari’s idea of assemblage and a focus on embodiment, I offer a reflexive account of an onto-epistemological inquiry into becoming with a range of other beings and things that are co-constitutive of the harbour wall or ‘the rocks’ at the Visby marina. Over a 6 month period of participant observation, I seek to be responsive to the emergent properties and knowledge of the fluctuating actors amidst the place assemblage of the rocks. The essay I offer within this thesis is part of what is resulting from these relationships and becomings. Within the essay, one of many themes I take up is a problematic view of place as being filled with objects of matter as opposed to an entangled, relational web of beings and things. Tourism easily commodifies places when they are seen as containers for bodies and objects, and this creates a distinct view of ‘tourist places’. I follow with a call to disrupt the imagined difference between tourist places and places in which we lead our daily lives in the hope of living outside of the shadow of human exceptionalism.  Accordingly, this thesis calls us to re-think tourism as but one part of our lives, as entanglements of bodies and things in and as place.

Becoming a mother is most often described as something natural and the qualities to be a mother is presupposed to exist in every woman. This paper presents the results of a qualitative study with the research question as to whether the image of ‘the good mother’ can be found in women's stories of becoming mothers. The data was collected through one group interview and two individual interviews and analyzed with Charmaz constructivist grounded theory as a method. In the analysis we found four theoretical codes that together answer our research questions. The result shows that there is still an ideal type of ‘the good mother’ after which women build their own identity as a mother. / Att bli mamma beskrivs ofta som något naturligt och egenskaperna att vara en god moder förutsätts existera i varje kvinna. Studiens syfte var att undersöka huruvida bilden av “den goda modern” kunde ses i kvinnors berättelser av att bli mödrar. Data samlades in genom en gruppintervju och två individuella intervjuer och analyserades med Charmaz konstruktivistiska grundade teori som metod. I analysen hittades fyra teoretiska koder som tillsammans svarar på forskningsfrågorna. Resultatet visar att det fortfarande finns en idealtyp av "den goda modern", varefter kvinnor skapar sin egen identitet som mamma.

Because the terms art and aesthetic are often ambiguously used, the purpose of this study was to develop a method of analyzing and clarifying their usage in written texts. Chapter I includes hypotheses and assumptions of this study. The first hypothesis was that it is possible to develop a systematic, objective, and replicable method of analyzing and clarifying the usage of art and aesthetic in art education texts. The second hypothesis is that, as a result of this analysis, it is possible to compare the usage of art and aesthetic in one text with the usage of these same terms in another. The two texts chosen as sources of data were Becoming Human Through Art by Edmund Burke Feldman and Emphasis; Art by Frank Wachowiak and Theodore Ramsey. The assumptions upon which this analysis was based are (a) that frequency of mention indicates author emphasis, and (b) that, based on analysis which indicates emphasis, summary definition of an author's teaching beliefs regarding art and aesthetic would be possible. Although both hypotheses are accepted, limitations of the method result from the subjectivity which existed in the selection of variables, the inference of contextual meaning which determined placement of variables in categories, and inference of emphasis based on resulting frequencies. Recommendations for further research are (a) examination of categories for appropriateness and inclusion of all relevant variables; (b) use of the method of contingency analysis to determine the usage of other ambiguous words and phrases; (c) use of variables associated with art and aesthetic as a thesaurus for future reference; and (d) application of the method to other literature in art education, transcribed interviews, and/or classroom instruction.