The Democratic State Playing Favourites: Building for Minorities in Interwar Czechoslovakia

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Democratic State Playing Favourites: Building for Minorities in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Original language description
In interwar Czechoslovakia, more than half of the state’s investments in educational infrastructure were directed toward so-called minority schools. A minority was defined by local demography, and the primary beneficiaries of minority policies were, by design, Czech-speaking communities in the predominantly German-speaking Sudetenland border regions. While officially framed as an effort to address historical disparities in educational access, the implementation of minority policies also helped deepen the tensions between the national groups. The hundreds of newly built schools, therefore, rather than being neutral institutions of learning, became visible markers of state influence. The paper aims to explore the interplay of state building policies, the kind of architecture it procured, and the ethnic conflict it both mirrored and further exacerbated, as well as the reasons why this physical testimony of First Czechoslovak Republic politics is now largely forgotten.
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GF23-42260L" target="_blank" >GF23-42260L: “Invisible Agents” in Architecture (1908-38). Policies, Principles, and Projects in Central European Ministries of Public Works</a><br>
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

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