The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia
Segregating in the Name of the Nation
Published on 1. October 2025
252 pages
978-1-040-78962-9 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
9,05 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-78962-9 (9781040789629)
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Victoria Shmidt
The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia
Segregating in the Name of the Nation
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Victoria Shmidt
The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia
Segregating in the Name of the Nation
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03/2019
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Person
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.
Content
Acknowledgements, List of archives and used abbreviations, List of illustrations, Introduction: The Politics of Disability: Structure and Agency in nation building in Czechoslovakia, Part 1: Building the Czechoslovak nation and sacralizing peoples' health: The vicissitudes of disability discourse during the interwar period, 1. Establishing national public health in interwar Czechoslovakia: Contexts and contests, 2. The discourse of disability: A Noah's ark for the new Nation?, 3. Politics concerning the Roma during the interwar period: therapeutic punishment vs. benevolent paternalism, Part 2: Post-war institutionalization of care for the disabled: Towards a universalized discourse of defective Gypsies, 4. Special education in Czechoslovakia between 1939 and 1989: Towards multilevel hierarchy of defectivity, 5. The Intersectionality of Disability and Race in Public and Professional Discourses about the Roma in socialist Czechoslovakia: between Propaganda and race Science, 6. The forced sterilization of Roma women between the 1970s and 1980s, Conclusions, Bibliography, Index
