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The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia
Segregating in the Name of the Nation
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Edited by:
Victoria Shmidt
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English
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2019
About this book
This book reexamines the politics of disability in interwar and socialist Czechoslovakia as embedded into nation building, recruited to legitimize diverse forms of structural violence against people with disabilities and ethnic minorities.
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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.
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"Die Stärke der Studie liegt darin, dass sie Phänomene zusammendenkt, die in der Regel getrennt betrachtet werden. Indem sie die Politik gegenüber Behinderten und gegenüber Roma wie zwei Folien übereinander schiebt und darüber hinaus die Gleichzeitigkeit unter-schiedlicher Einflüsse in den Blick nimmt, gelingt ihr eine überzeugende Darlegung, die auch jenseits der engeren Fragestellung wichtige Erkenntnisse zur Sonderschulerziehung, zur Politik gegenüber den Roma und zum eugenischen Diskurs bietet. Das Wagnis aus der Sozialwissenschaft heraus eine historische Studie zu verfassen, hat sich gelohnt; herausge-kommen ist ein gut recherchiertes und empfehlenswertes Werk!"
- Natali Stegmann, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies 3/2020
"The combination of study the politics of disability in past, the geographical placement with actual topic on mechanisms of producing inequalities has resulted in an excellent book. It has both academic and societal relevance."
- Prof. Elena Marushiakova, School of History, University of St Andrews, Scotland
"This remarkable volume analyses almost a century of Czechoslovakian eugenics which emerged in the 1920s. Its objects were disabled people as well as ethnic minorities considered to be ‘inferior’ or ‘asocial’, in particular the ‘Gypsies’. One of the great merits of this important and exciting book is its focus on a gender perspective."
- Gisela Bock, Freie Universität Berlin
- Natali Stegmann, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies 3/2020
"The combination of study the politics of disability in past, the geographical placement with actual topic on mechanisms of producing inequalities has resulted in an excellent book. It has both academic and societal relevance."
- Prof. Elena Marushiakova, School of History, University of St Andrews, Scotland
"This remarkable volume analyses almost a century of Czechoslovakian eugenics which emerged in the 1920s. Its objects were disabled people as well as ethnic minorities considered to be ‘inferior’ or ‘asocial’, in particular the ‘Gypsies’. One of the great merits of this important and exciting book is its focus on a gender perspective."
- Gisela Bock, Freie Universität Berlin
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Part 1. Building the Czechoslovak Nation and Sacralizing Peoples’ Health: The Vicissitudes of Disability Discourse during the Interwar Period
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Contexts and Contests Victoria Shmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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A Noah’s Ark for the New Nation? Victoria Shmidt and Karel Pančocha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Therapeutic Punishment vs. Benevolent Paternalism Victoria Shmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Part 2. Postwar Institutionalization of Care for the Disabled: Toward a Universalized Discourse of “Defective Gypsies”
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Toward Multilevel Hierarchy of Defectivity Frank Henschel and Victoria Shmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Between Propaganda and Race Science Victoria Shmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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The Rise of Eugenic Socialism Victoria Shmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Going from Knowledge about the Violent Past to Acknowledging It Victoria Shmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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eBook published on:
March 19, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9789048544059
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252
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18
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Professional and scholarly;