The politics of disability in interwar and socialist Czechoslovakia : segregating in the name of the nation / edited by Victoria Shmidt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shmidt, Victoria R., editor.

Series:

Heritage and memory studies ; 7.

Heritage and memory studies ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.

People with disabilities.

Romanies--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.

Romanies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Archives and Used Abbreviations

Introduction. The Politics of Disability: Structure and Agency in Nation Building in Czechoslovakia / Shmidt, Victoria

Part 1. Building the Czechoslovak Nation and Sacralizing Peoples' Health: The Vicissitudes of Disability Discourse during the Interwar Period

Introduction

1. Establishing National Public Health in Interwar Czechoslovakia / Shmidt, Victoria

2. The Discourse of Disability / Shmidt, Victoria / Pančocha, Karel

3. Politics Concerning the Roma during the Interwar Period / Shmidt, Victoria

Part 2. Postwar Institutionalization of Care for the Disabled: Toward a Universalized Discourse of "Defective Gypsies"

4. Special Education in Czechoslovakia between 1939 and 1989 / Henschel, Frank / Shmidt, Victoria

5. The Intersectionality of Disability and Race in Public and Professional Discourses about the Roma in Socialist Czechoslovakia / Shmidt, Victoria

6. The Forced Sterilization of Roma Women between the 1970s and the 1980s / Shmidt, Victoria

Conclusions / Shmidt, Victoria

Abstracts in German and French

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

ISBN:

1-003-70730-0

90-485-4405-X

9781003707301

OCLC:

1090494587