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Negotiating the representations of the village in socialist Czechoslovakia

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DOUŠEK Roman

Year of publication 2024
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source RURAL HISTORY-ECONOMY SOCIETY CULTURE
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Faculty of Arts

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0956793324000086
Description This study deals with shared ideas about the countryside and its inhabitants during the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. It identifies the most significant sources of contemporary representations of the rural. These include, besides historical ideas pre-dating the regime, the party-state itself, expert structures, the arts, and pop culture. In many cases, representations encompassed efforts to transform the countryside, or society, or to maintain the status quo, and, following de Certeau, we can consider such activities to be strategies. On the other hand, villagers approached these representations and strategies using their own tactics. This study demonstrates that rural policymaking was not just in the hands of power structures; the effects it had depended a great deal on the dominated rural inhabitants.
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