Publication details
Öffentliche Gesundheit als Mittel des inneren Kolonialismus in der Tschechoslowakei der Zwischenkriegszeit: Die Diskursgestaltung über die Kinder der Nation
| Title in English | Public health as an agent of internal colonialism in interwar Czechoslovakia: Shaping the discourse about the nation’s children |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
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| Description | I discuss the specifics of internal colonialism in the discourses and practices provided by dominant group, the Czechs, to Slovaks and Ruthenians, the ethnic groups from peripheral, Eastern, areas of interwar Czechoslovakia. By targeting the undesirable for authorities reproductive patterns of these groups, internal colonialism shaped the discourses around children towards consistent opposition of normalized childhood inside nationhood and abnormal child development outside the civilizing process. The text focuses on three projects aimed at and introducing new public health practices as infrastructure of dependence concerning the peripheral groups. Being directly patronized by the Rockefeller Foundation, these projects put together building the new, Czechoslovak, nation and its legitimation within international agenda. |
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