HEN633 Studying Local Rural Systems

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2018
Rozsah
0/2/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Mgr. Mikuláš Černík (přednášející)
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: Ing. Veronika Išová
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
  • During the first week of the spring semester there will be an information meeting for all the students registered for the course. It takes place on Thursday, February 22nd 18:45 in U32. If there are more than 3 students registered in the course, we will decide together who is going to take part (hence, if you are interested in the course, please do register it even if the limit of 3 is already filled up - usually some people drop off once the full course information is provided and the dates are settled).
  • The course itself begins with a one day pre-seminar in March (23rd) 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 in May (14th - 18th) 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:
1-day theoretical seminar in Vienna
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 15 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 students are supposed to cover all the costs related to the course (traveling, accommodation and meal expenses, approx. 2000 CZK) by themselves. Students of the Department of Environmental Studies can apply for small department and faculty grants to cover these costs, but these are not guaranteed in advance.

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Výuka probíhá blokově.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2013, jaro 2014, jaro 2015, jaro 2016, jaro 2019.