Political Mobilisation as an Opportunity? Collecting Material from Anti-government Protests and Campaigns ahead of the 2021-2023 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections in the Czech Republic
Abstract
The submitted article aims to address the issue of material memory collection in political campaigns and political protests. Within the concentrated work on the data collection, 2021 parliamentary elections, 2023 presidential elections, and protest events in 2022-2023 are mapped.
The primary goal is to provide a comprehensive insight into the preparatory, realisation, and interpretation phases of field research. This includes a short description of individual events and the strategy employed for the useful gathering of materials.
The added value of the text lies in the effort to establish an interdisciplinary methodological connection between political science and museology. The research draws conclusions that can be further generalised and suggests new procedures for subsequent data gathering