Publication details
Konceptualizace pojmu rasa a rasismus. Sociologický pohled
| Title in English | Conceptualizing Race and Racism: A Sociological Perspective |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociální studia |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | Race; Racism; Body; Ideology; Discourse |
| Description | To start with analysing language, knowledge, interpretations and practical consequences of this knowledge and interpretations, forms the basic theoretical presupposition of all sociological inquiryes into the phenomena of "race". All forms of knowledge dealing with "race" are necessarily linked with practices of power constituting hierarchical orders of classification. Racist ideology by means of these orders constructs its objects and subjects i.e. those who are racists and those who are stigmatised. Racist representations of the Other are closely interrelated with the discoursive construction of the body as space in which symbolic boundaries of impurity, hatred as well as health and desire are situated. Discoursive regime of racism is not a side-product of modernity but one of its main cultural forms. The ideology of racism played a crucial role in legitimizing the emerging nation-state both in its internal efforts to normalize society and external attempts to colonize new lands. |
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