"Mental Retardation" and Affective Politics of Abandonment "Mental Retardation" and Affective Politics of Abandonment
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F17%3A10365642" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/17:10365642 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.genderonline.cz/uploads/a077cbf24ef6cd58baca64bd4e5e573f40cd6125_gender-2-2017-stat-6-kolarova.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.genderonline.cz/uploads/a077cbf24ef6cd58baca64bd4e5e573f40cd6125_gender-2-2017-stat-6-kolarova.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/25706578.2017.18.2.374" target="_blank" >10.13060/25706578.2017.18.2.374</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
čeština
Original language name
"Mentální retardace" a afektivní politiky zřeknutí se
Original language description
This text explores the affective politics of race and disability that underpin the post- socialist developments in the Czech Republic. Firstly, I interrogate "mental retardation", as a discursive and material practice of differentiating human life according to presumed value. To make the argument, the text follows practices of "mental retardation" through several discursive and material locations: cultural imaginations of "ferality", controversy spiked by the use of "protective"/"cage" beds in institutional care and the concept of lege artis, i.e. the principle of necessary and (medically) possible care. Travelling through these locations, I argue, secondly, that racialised and ableist notions of worthy human life have been central to the post-socialist affective politics of abandonment. In other words, the text shows how the politics of re-negotiated belonging and attachment to liberal democracy in the post-socialist Czech Republic were predicated upon structures of abandonment and the de/valuation of disabled and racialised lives. And lastly, the text lays out the legacies of colonial domination even in the contemporary intersectional comminglings of race and disability as it is echoed in the current practices of "mental retardation".
Czech name
"Mentální retardace" a afektivní politiky zřeknutí se
Czech description
This text explores the affective politics of race and disability that underpin the post- socialist developments in the Czech Republic. Firstly, I interrogate "mental retardation", as a discursive and material practice of differentiating human life according to presumed value. To make the argument, the text follows practices of "mental retardation" through several discursive and material locations: cultural imaginations of "ferality", controversy spiked by the use of "protective"/"cage" beds in institutional care and the concept of lege artis, i.e. the principle of necessary and (medically) possible care. Travelling through these locations, I argue, secondly, that racialised and ableist notions of worthy human life have been central to the post-socialist affective politics of abandonment. In other words, the text shows how the politics of re-negotiated belonging and attachment to liberal democracy in the post-socialist Czech Republic were predicated upon structures of abandonment and the de/valuation of disabled and racialised lives. And lastly, the text lays out the legacies of colonial domination even in the contemporary intersectional comminglings of race and disability as it is echoed in the current practices of "mental retardation".
Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA13-18411S" target="_blank" >GA13-18411S: Biological citizenship: forms of governance and resistance to biomedical knowledge in the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum
ISSN
1213-0028
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
18
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
128-154
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85040903491