HEN633 Studying Local Rural Systems

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2015
Rozsah
0/2/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Mgr. Eva Fraňková, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Dipl. Ing. Willi Haas (přednášející), doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D. (zástupce)
Dr. Simron Jit Singh (přednášející), doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D. (zástupce)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.
Katedra environmentálních studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Zdeňka Lechnerová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra environmentálních studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Předpoklady
SOUHLAS
upper-intermediate English language skills
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Cíle předmětu
The course aims to provide insights and methodological training in studying local communities through the use of anthropological and social ecological field methods, and interpret the results within the framework of sustainability and development studies. Taking a systems perspective, the students are encouraged to look at rural systems as coupled socio-ecological systems (SES) with material, energy, land, labour and technology as relevant variables.
Osnova
  • The course itself begins with a one day pre-seminar on Friday, 13th of March at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna with an overview of the theoretical and operational framework of social ecology and societal metabolism.
  • The actual seminar takes place as a 5-day block (11.-15.5.2015) in a culturally challenging environment of Třeboňsko (Františkov village, near Třeboň, Czech Republic) where further inputs are given and actual field work is undertaken. Here we learn and experience how to establish contact, build rapport and interact in a culturally sensitive way. We also learn to design innovative field methods of generating data that provides relevant information on the functioning of local rural systems such as material and energy flows, time use, land-use, and to estimate quantities of society’s stocks such as population, livestock, land, and artefacts. The seminar concludes with reflection on our experiences and results, and makes an attempt to interpret them within the framework of sustainability and development interventions.
  • Main topics: • Material and energy flow analysis • Land use • Functional time use analysis • Institutional aspects
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • • 3 – 5 shorter scientific articles on social metabolism, land use, Třeboňsko Biosphere reserve, small-scale farming etc., will be specified and provided in March
  • • Singh, S.J. et al. (2010) Local studies manual. A researcher’s guide for investigating the social metabolism of local rural systems. Social Ecology Working Paper, Vienna. Available at http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/downloads/WP120_Web.pdf (10.2.2013)
Výukové metody
Interactive block seminar: inputs, role plays, field work, analysis and writing in small groups. The course is designed for students interested in human-environment relations, anthropological and socio-ecological field methods, local sustainability and development paradigms from backgrounds such as sociology, anthropology, ecology, international development and related disciplines.
Metody hodnocení
Participation during the entire seminar (including the pre-seminar), field work, brief presentation of results and writing a short assignment in groups on the outcome and analysis of the field research.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
The course schedule details: beginning of the semester: informational meeting
Friday 13th of March: 1-day theoretical seminar in Vienna
week 11th - 15th of May: 5-day field course in South Bohemia (Třeboňsko)
The course is organized by the Institute of Social Ecology (Vienna) in collaboration with the University of South Bohemia and Masaryk University, Brno. The number of students is limited to 20 participants from Austria, 3 from University of South Bohemia and 3 from Masaryk University.
The field part of the course will take place in the village of Františkov.
The traveling, accommodation and meal expenses can be covered for the students by a grant of the Department of Environmental Studies if they are students of the department and have Czech nationality. These students are expected to cover their other possible small expenses eg. bike rent, entrance fee etc. Other students will have to cover all their costs by themselves. Expected costs range from 2 to 3 000 CZK.

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Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2013, jaro 2014, jaro 2016, jaro 2018, jaro 2019.