The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia: Segregating in the Name of the Nation

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The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia

Segregating in the Name of the Nation

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Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: November 2020
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9789048544059
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544059

Subjects:: Regional and World History: General Interest, History

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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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The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia

Segregating in the Name of the Nation

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-8

List of Figures
pp 8-10

Acknowledgements
pp 11-12

List of Archives and Used Abbreviations
pp 13-14

Introduction: The Politics of Disability: Structure and Agency in Nation Building in Czechoslovakia
pp 15-28

Part 1 - Building the Czechoslovak Nation and Sacralizing Peoples’ Health: The Vicissitudes of Disability Discourse during the Interwar Period
pp 29-34

1 - Establishing National Public Health in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Contexts and Contests
pp 35-60

2 - The Discourse of Disability: A Noah’s Ark for the New Nation?
pp 61-76

3 - Politics Concerning the Roma during the Interwar Period: Therapeutic Punishment vs. Benevolent Paternalism
pp 77-104

Part 2 - Postwar Institutionalization of Care for the Disabled: Toward a Universalized Discourse of “Defective Gypsies”
pp 105-108

4 - Special Education in Czechoslovakia between 1939 and 1989: Toward Multilevel Hierarchy of Defectivity
pp 109-144

5 - The Intersectionality of Disability and Race in Public and Professional Discourses about the Roma in Socialist Czechoslovakia: Between Propaganda and Race Science
pp 145-176

6 - The Forced Sterilization of Roma Women between the 1970s and the 1980s: The Rise of Eugenic Socialism
pp 177-202

Conclusions: Going from Knowledge about the Violent Past to Acknowledging It
pp 203-212

Abstracts in German and French
pp 213-214

Bibliography
pp 215-250

Index
pp 251-252

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