"We beg you not to equate the names of Gypsies and knife-grinders with honest traders." Itinerant Trade and the Racialisation of "Gypsies" in the Czech Lands between 1918 and 1938
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23777/SN0219/ART_PBAL01" target="_blank" >10.23777/SN0219/ART_PBAL01</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"We beg you not to equate the names of Gypsies and knife-grinders with honest traders." Itinerant Trade and the Racialisation of "Gypsies" in the Czech Lands between 1918 and 1938
Original language description
This article focuses on the contemporary common association of itinerant trades with "Gypsyness" and the consequent relation between adopting anti-Gypsy measures and the state intentions to regulate professing itinerant trades. By analysing the intended bill on itinerant trades, the study shows how were the administrative police terms such as Gypsies and "work-shies" intertwined. It, further, argues that limiting space for self-employed mobile economic activities went hand in hand with legalizing the status of second-class citizens in 1927 when a new law On Wandering Gypsies was passed by the Czechoslovak Parliament. The article also analyses the agency of one particular itinerant traders' association called Kotva (Anchor) and pays the attention to the traders' manifold defensive strategies. Because of their close contacts with Gypsies - sharing social and economic spaces -, setting themselves apart from the Gypsies and presenting themselves as "decent citizens", i.e. part of the Czechoslovak nation, constituted crucial agenda of this association. In their successful effort to shield themselves of being included into the new police register of "wandering Gypsies" they reproduced and amplified the state aim to eliminate "work-shies" among itinerant traders. In this way, the article deals with the process of racialization of the category of Gypsies in the interwar Czechoslovakia. And racialization is presented as intricate historical process which was influenced even by the non-state historical actors.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - 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)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation.
ISSN
2408-9192
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Volume of the periodical
6
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
AT - AUSTRIA
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
44-54
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