Colonial Exceptionalism: Post-colonial Scholarship and Race in Czech and Slovak Historiography

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/se-2020-0010" target="_blank" >10.2478/se-2020-0010</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Colonial Exceptionalism: Post-colonial Scholarship and Race in Czech and Slovak Historiography

Original language description

In spite of recent calls for the decolonisation of Czech and Slovak academia, there is still relatively little reflection of post-colonial theory in either Czech or Slovak historiography or related disciplines, including ethnology and Slavic studies. In the following essay I summarise the local discussion of coloniality and colonialism that has been going on since at least the end of the 2000s, while pointing out its conceptual limits and blind spots, namely the persistence of ‘colonial exceptionalism’ and the lack of understanding and use of race as an analytical tool. In dialogue with critical race theory as well as recent literature that deals with comparable ‘non-colonial’ or ‘marginal-colonial’ contexts such as South-Eastern Europe, Poland and the Nordic countries, I discuss how the local debates relating to colonial history as well as the post-colonial / post-socialist present of both countries would benefit from embracing the concept of ‘colonial exceptionalism’ and from including concepts of race and ‘whiteness’ as important tools of a critical analysis.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Slovenský národopis

ISSN

1335-1303

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

68

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

175-187

UT code for WoS article

000592187000004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85092463586