The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia

Segregating in the Name of the Nation
0. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-94-6372-001-4
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 405 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 542 g

Reihe: Heritage and Memory Studies

By focusing on the politics of disability as a pillar of Czechoslovak identity, The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia: Segregating in the Name of the Nation reflects upon the vicissitudes of nation building over the twentieth century that led to extreme forms of institutional violence against minorities, mainly the Roma, such as forced sterilization. The authors trace the intersectionality of ethnicity and disability, which proliferated across diverse realms of public life, positioning the continuities and ruptures of interrogating propaganda and racial science during the interwar and post-war periods as establishing and reinforcing the border between a healthy Czech majority and a disabled Roma minority. The book critically revises this border that remains observable but unapproachable until it operates as a part of constructing the authenticity of a nation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shmidt, Victoria

Weitere Mitwirkende

Shmidt, Victoria

Henschel, Frank

Pancocha, Karel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of archives and used abbreviations List of illustrations Introduction: The Politics of Disability: Structure and Agency in nation building in Czechoslovakia (Victoria Shmidt) Part 1 Building the Czechoslovak nation and sacralizing peoples' health: The vicissitudes of disability discourse during the interwar period Chapter 1 Establishing national public health in interwar Czechoslovakia: Contexts and contests (Karel Pancocha and Victoria Shmidt) Chapter 2 The discourse of disability: A Noah's ark for the new Nation? (Karel Pancocha and Victoria Shmidt) Chapter 3 Politics concerning the Roma during the interwar period: therapeutic punishment vs. benevolent paternalism (Victoria Shmidt) Part 2 Post-war institutionalization of care for the disabled: Towards a universalized discourse of "defective Gypsies" Chapter 4 Special education in Czechoslovakia between 1939 and 1989: Towards multilevel hierarchy of defectivity (Frank Henchel and Victoria Shmidt) Chapter 5 The Intersectionality of Disability and Race in Public and Professional Discourses about the Roma in socialist czechoslovakia: between Propaganda and race Science (Victoria Shmidt) Chapter 6 The forced sterilization of Roma women between the 1970's and 1980's: Ultimately eugenic socialism (Victoria Shmidt) Conclusions: On the way from the knowledge about the violent past to its acknowledgement (Karel Pancocha and Victoria Shmidt) Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shmidt, Victoria
Victoria Shmidt has a PhD in Social Work (2012, Masaryk University). Since 2011, she has been working on the issue of the policies concerning ethnic minorities in the Czech lands.

"https://www.cas.bg/en/cas-current-fellows/victoria-shmidt-355.html">Victoria Shmidt has a PhD in Social Work (2012, Masaryk University). Since 2011, she has been working on the issue of the policies concerning ethnic minorities in the Czech lands.