The politics of disability in interwar and socialist Czechoslovakia: segregating in the name of the nation

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 institu...

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Weitere Verfasser: Shmidt, Victoria 1975- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Heritage and memory studies
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Zusammenfassung: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
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (252 Seiten)
ISBN:9789048544059
DOI:10.1017/9789048544059

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