Equality and Representation

Social and Political Engagement of Roma in Communist Czechoslovakia 1948-1968

Helena Sadílková, Dušan Slačka, Milada Závodská (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2026 | 2025
Brill | Schöningh (Verlag)
978-3-506-79672-1 (ISBN)

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This book challenges the notion of Roma as mere victims of human rights violations in 20th century Europe and as another collective victim of Nazism and Stalinism. Focusing on post-war Czechoslovakia in the first 20 years of its existence as a communist state, the book explores various spheres of public life in which it is possible to trace the agency of Romani individuals and collective initiatives. As citizens and Holocaust survivors they fought for equal rights, social and political participation under conditions which appeared to be a dramatic reformulation of the state's approach to Roma under communist rule. The book offers a collection of texts, a unique selection of historical sources of predominantly Romani provenance, and commentaries that contextualise these sources within the history of post-war Czechoslovakia and the local nascent Romani movement.

Helena Sadílková is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Central European and Balkan Studies at Charles University, where she heads the Roma Studies Unit.Dusan Slacka is an independent researcher with work experience as a historian and curator of the collection of written materials and self-documentation at the Museum of Roma Culture in Brno (CR), where he worked on several publication and exhibition projects. Milada Závodská is a historian. Since 2019 she has been working as a researcher at the Research and Teaching Unit for Romani Studies at Charles University.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2025
Reihe/Serie	Roma History and Culture ; 6
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Schlagworte	1948 • 1968 • 6 • Citizenship • communist • czechoslovakia • Dušan • Engagement • Equality • Ethnicity • Ethnizität • Helena • Milada • Minderheitenrechte • Minority rights • Political • Representation • RoHC • Roma • Romani agency • Sadilkova • Slačka • Social • Social Activism • source book • sozialer Aktivismus • Staatsbürgerschaft • Závodská
ISBN-10	3-506-79672-0 / 3506796720
ISBN-13	978-3-506-79672-1 / 9783506796721
Zustand	Neuware