A Case of Environmental Movement in the Czech Republic: Identity in Extinction Rebellion

The subject of the diploma thesis is the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion in the Czech Republic. To understand the context, the theoretical section of the thesis presents the history of environmental movements, the development of activism in the Czech Republic and also describes the current Czech environmental organizations and the typology of illegal actions. Next part of the theoretical section is a detailed presentation of the Extinction Rebellion movement in both the international and Czech environment, as well as the definition of collective identity as a fundamental concept of the thesis. The aim of this qualitative research is to find out what is the collective identity of Extinction Rebellion movement. To provide a thorough and holistic understanding of the movement's collective identity, as well as Extinction Rebellion as a phenomenon, the research raises secondary research questions about people's motivations to join the movement, their expectations and members' attitudes to climate change. Data collection through semi-structured interviews and documents is used to answer the questions. The main applied concepts are three categories and three features of collective identity defined by Albert Melucci. Extinction Rebellion is a grass-root, radical and autonomous movement, using..