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Cultural Politics of Ethnicity

Discourses on Roma in Communist Czechoslovakia

By: Vera Sokolova

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Cultural Politics of Ethnicity

Discourses on Roma in Communist Czechoslovakia

By: Vera Sokolova

This book maps out the history of Czechoslovak linguistic and social practices directed at Roma during the communist period. It explains how contemporary Czech society has come to understand the Romani population in terms of inherited social, medical and juridical ideas. Rather than focusing on the Roma people as an object of analysis, the book problematizes assumed notions of “Gypsiness” and “Czechness” in mainstream society by highlighting the role of different socialist discourses in constructing images of Roma as socially deviant and abnormal. By uncovering the lines of continuity in the intersections of ethnic discrimination, social deviance and citizenship from the 1950s to the collapse of communism, this book comes to terms with a variety of questions that have not yet been adequately addressed in the literature: What underlying assumptions informed the socialist regime’s understanding of “Gypsiness,” and how did these conceptions relate to notions of citizenship, equality and normality? How and why did the meaning of the terms “Gypsies” and “Roma” become imbued in popular discourse with ideas of unhealthiness and social deviance? What implications does translating perceived cultural traits and lifestyles of Roma into non-ethnic frames of reference have for understanding racism and ethnic sensibilities in the country today? The work emphasizes historical continuities between contemporary xenophobia and the strategies which the communist regime used to deal with the “Gypsy question.” Focusing on the discrepancies between written laws and policies as well as their implementation, this study exposes the intricate relationships between official beliefs, institutional policies and popular consciousness under the communist regime. For it was these relationships which together created the mechanisms of social control that facilitated discrimination of Czechoslovak Roma under the guise of social welfare.

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312

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ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press

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3838258649

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9783838258645

Russia's Liberal Media

Handcuffed but Free

By: Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova

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Russia's Liberal Media

Handcuffed but Free

By: Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova

This book examines the challenges and pressures liberal journalists face in Putin's Russia. It presents the findings of an in-depth qualitative study, which included ethnographic observations of editorial meetings during the conflict in Ukraine. It also provides a theoretical framework for evaluating the Russian media system and a historical overview of the development of liberal media in the country. The book focuses on some of Russia’s most influential liberal national news outlets: "the deadliest" newspaper Novaya Gazeta, "Russia’s last independent radio station" Radio Echo of Moscow (Ekho Moskvy) and US Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The fieldwork included ethnographic observations of editorial meetings, long interviews with editors and journalists as well as documentary analysis. The monograph makes theoretical contributions to three main areas: 1. Media systems and terms of reference. 2. Journalism: cultures, role conceptions, and relationship with power, culture and society. 3. Mediatisation of conflict and nationhood.

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228

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Routledge

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1315300176

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9781315300177

Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution

By: Vera Shevzov

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Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution

By: Vera Shevzov

Explores sacred community, and how it functioned (or sometimes did not) in Russian Orthodoxy before the fateful historic events of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

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373

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Oxford University Press

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0195335473

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9780195335477

Vera Alexandrovna

Twentieth Century Woman

By: Alexandra Caroline Pushkin

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Twentieth Century Woman

By: Alexandra Caroline Pushkin

A biography of a Russian immigrant who survived the Revolution of 1917 to become a successful Wall Street broker, mother and resident of San Francisco; as told by her daughter.

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143923387X

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Cultural Politics of Ethnicity

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