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

The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia: Segregating in the Name of the Nation
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Country
NL
Published
27 March 2019
Pages
252
ISBN
9789463720014

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 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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