"We Are Not Flying Angels, Who - without Any Material Needs - Can Satisfy the Soul" / Conflicts, Negotiating and Making Demands by Members of the City and District Committees of the Slovak Union of Gypsies-Roma in Košice, 1969-1973

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ka99V844qg" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ka99V844qg</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.51134/sod.2024.051" target="_blank" >10.51134/sod.2024.051</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

"We Are Not Flying Angels, Who - without Any Material Needs - Can Satisfy the Soul" / Conflicts, Negotiating and Making Demands by Members of the City and District Committees of the Slovak Union of Gypsies-Roma in Košice, 1969-1973

Original language description

The article deals with the issue of local and district Romani politics and negotiation strategies in the Union of Gypsies-Roma in Slovakia (Zväz Cigánov-Rómov na Slovensku) in the years 1969-1973. Using the example of the City and District Committees of the Union in Košice, the centre of eastern Slovakia, and the background of the clashes between centralism and regionalism, the author attempts to outline the wide range of voices and opinions that were voiced among the members of the Union, placing its functioning and activities in the broader context of the political events of the period. In doing so, she identifies the so-called normalization discourse, a concept that she uses as her main analytical tool, following the work of the American historian Stephen Kotkin. According to the author, the &quot;normalisation discourse&quot; was based on the terminology of a key document from 1970 confirming the Communist Party&apos;s control over social and political developments after the Prague Spring, and in the context of Roma politics it was used for various purposes, such as articulating a critical stance towards the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Komunistická strana Československa, KSČ) or the leadership of the Union of Gypsies-Roma itself. Moreover, the City Committee of the Union of Gypsies-Roma in Košice developed various strategies to keep its members active and to avoid being paralysed by the passivity of the membership base. The author presents the Roma as active subjects who, during the period of state socialism in Czechoslovakia, sought to actively determine their future.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Czech Journal of Contemporary History

ISSN

2336-3142

e-ISSN

2336-3134

Volume of the periodical

31

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

36

Pages from-to

749-784

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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