African Studies in the Czech Republic: Complicated History and Uncertain Future

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

African Studies in the Czech Republic: Complicated History and Uncertain Future

Original language description

The first part of the text summarizes the early phase of Czech African Studies that took place within the context of &quot;colonial fantasies&quot;, and aspirations to belong among the &quot;civilized&quot;, dominating European nations. Subsequent developments in the second half of the 20th century evolved within the framework of the Cold War. The core of the article focuses on Czech African Studies after 1989. The end of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia/ the Czech Republic brought about a paradigmatic shift in academic work, as well as a sharp break with the previous ways of approaching the. &quot;Third World&quot; and its problems. Yet with respect to African Studies, these changes led to closing rather than opening of the horizons. The revival of this specific branch of area studies in the past years must be understood in the broader political and cultural context of the debates on the decolonization of European academia, as well as the changing global political and economic entanglements. But the present-day situation of African studies (and area studies in general) also relates to specific political and social debates within the Czech Republic and the whole Central European region

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

Comparativ

ISSN

0940-3566

e-ISSN

2942-8475

Volume of the periodical

35

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

403-423

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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