Martin Schmiedl- Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor at Mendel University in Brno
Martin Schmiedl
- Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor at Mendel University in Brno
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Introduction
Current institution
Additional affiliations
December 2016 - present
August 2019 - January 2020
Position
- Lecturer
Description
- Erasmus Practical Mobility Tutor at Methodological Seminars
Editor roles
Executive Editor of journal Modern Africa
Position
- Deputy Editor
Education
September 2017 - November 2017
September 2015 - September 2023
January 2014 - June 2014
Publications
Publications (10)
This article analyses public comments posted under Czech newspapers/media Facebook posts between March and August 2021 which engage with the matter of kneeling and support of Black Lives Matter in football. Findings suggest that there is a certain ignorance of the global politics of race which lead to complex discourses of a) ‘rejection’, b) ‘rever...
The Sahel region currently faces various social, political, security, and environmental issues. However, the scientific and media discourse tends to oversimplify the underlying causes of these issues. While some authors attribute them to the heavy impact of climate change-induced scarcity, others focus on political factors such as bad governance. T...
What kind of people choose to join protests in contemporary Africa? Aiming to reduce the existing uncertainty related to the impact of different factors on protest participation, this article tests several hypotheses about participation in Third Wave demonstrations across the African continent, related to democratic values, socioeconomic status, an...
External interventions are one of the most important aspects of intrastate conflicts since a majority of them are significantly internationalised, especially in Africa where the interventions most often occur. Factors that lead to the military intervention remain, however, puzzling. The authors therefore apply the method of fs/QCA to understand not...
The chapter presents insight into the current state of values and standpoints towards democracy in South Africa. Therefore, it does not present the topic of mobility in the sense of a geographical movement but rather in metaphorical sense. If we look at the indexes of democracy, South Africa is one of the most successful countries in sub-Saharan Af...
As some seminal works shows (Collier, Hoeffler 1998; 2002; 2004; Collier, Hoeffler Rohner 2009; Gurr 2015; Fearon, Laitin 2003; Sambanis 2001 etc.), the specific reasons for intrastate conflicts are not easily identified. In most contexts, several different conditions play significant roles. The proposed paper offers methodological considerations i...
In 1994, acts of genocide in Rwanda claimed the lives of almost one million people. After peace was established, a new provisional regime was put in place. For nine years after, the country was ruled by a provisional government led by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a former rebel group transformed into a political party. The head of the new party was...
