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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “victoria shmidt”
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  • A Critical History of Health Films in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond

    by Victoria Shmidt, Karl Kaser ...
    Series series Routledge Open History
    The burgeoning scholarship on Western health films stands in stark contrast to the vacuum in the historical conceptualization of Eastern European films. This book develops a nonlinear historical model that revises their unique role in the inception of national cinematography and establishing supranational health security.Readers witness the revelation of an unknown history concerning how the ... Read more

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  • Historicizing Roma in Central Europe

    Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice

    by Victoria Shmidt, Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky ...
    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    In Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextualizing the impact of ideas on everyday racism. This book attempts to interpret such a gap as a case of epistemic injustice. It underscores the historical role of ideas in race-making and provides analytical lenses for exploring cross-border transfers of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia

    Segregating in the Name of the Nation

    Edited by Victoria Shmidt ...
    Series series Heritage and Memory Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Blumenbach’s Racial Classification

    Deconstructing the Timeless Call for Human Differentiation

    Edited by Victoria Shmidt, Simone De Angelis ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book explores how the elements of Blumenbach’s epistemology have been variously assembled in different ways and in different historical-cultural and political-social contexts. It looks at the ways in which this epistemology has been enriched with new elements that have ensured its reproduction. The contributors revise approaches to the historical legacy of Enlightenment scholars ... Read more

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    Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe

    Edited by Iveta Jusová, Jirina Šiklová ...
    Sixteen essays "apply the intersectional theory in an inspiring way in the analysis of gender issues in the past and in contemporary Czech society" ( Aspasia).In this wide-ranging study of women's and gender issues in the pre- and post-1989 Czech Republic, contributors engage with current feminist debates and theories of nation and identity to examine the historical and cultural transformations of ... Read more

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  • Autobiographies of Transformation

    Lives in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Mike Keen, Janusz Mucha ...
    Series series Studies in European Sociology
    Autobiographies of Transformation is a completely unique history of sociology in Central and Eastern Europe in the post-Communist era.Through the autobiographies of ten key sociological witnesses from the region, the sociological imagination is turned upon itself, resulting in a compelling and revealing account of the struggles, triumphs, and continuing challenges faced. The sociologists examined ... Read more

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  • Queer Encounters with Communist Power

    Non-Heterosexual Lives and the State in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989

    by Vera Sokolová ...
    In the repressive context of East European Communist regimes, how did young girls and boys come to realize their sexuality? What did they do with that self-awareness—and later on, as adults, what strategies did they employ in their dealings with the regime? Queer Encounters with Communist Power answers these questions as it interweaves a groundbreaking queer oral history project with meticulous, ... Read more

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  • Soviet Postcolonial Studies

    A View from the Western Borderlands

    by Epp Annus ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    Postcolonial studies is a well-established academic field, rich in theory, but it is based mostly on postcolonial experiences in former West European colonial empires. This book takes a different approach, considering postcolonial theory in relation to the former Soviet bloc. It both applies existing postcolonial theory to this different setting, and also uses the experiences of former Soviet bloc ... Read more

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  • Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe

    by Piotr Piotrowski ...
    The conclusion of the Cold War in 1989 signalled the beginning of a new era in Eastern Europe, and this widespread change was felt no less strongly in the world of art. In Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe, Piotr Piotrowski examines the art made after 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe in light of the profound political, social, economic and cultural transformations in the region.As well ... Read more

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  • Everyday Life in Russia

    Past and Present

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  • Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads

    Edited by Aili Aarelaid-Tart, Li Bennich-Björkman ...
    Series series Studies in European Sociology
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  • What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?

    Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire

    by Madina Tlostanova ...
    Series series On Decoloniality
    In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity—has lapsed from the post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows how the possible way out of such a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with activist art. She ... Read more

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