Imagining the Postcolonial in Central Eastern Europe. Controversies of the Czech Manifesto for Decolonization

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11230/25:10482071

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10767-024-09478-1" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10767-024-09478-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10767-024-09478-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10767-024-09478-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Imagining the Postcolonial in Central Eastern Europe. Controversies of the Czech Manifesto for Decolonization

Original language description

In September 2020, the Czech digital audience was confronted with a request to critically revise local history and the current official cultural and political attitudes from a decolonial perspective. A group of university students and lecturers published the Manifesto for Decolonization, a digitally circulated text that sparked a debate about what was/is the position of the former Czech lands and contemporary Czechia within the history of Western European colonization. This article examines three phases of the event: the publishing of the text, its digital audience reception, and the reflection of its production. As for publishing and reception, the imaginations inscribed into the text by its authors are examined in comparison with the imaginations present in the popular responses of digital audiences expressed on social media. To explore the context of production, we conducted and analyzed interviews with three local experts involved in the production process. Through our findings, we demonstrate the following: (1) the role of a generational gap that divides the views of local experts in interpreting the aspirations of the Manifesto and (2) the role of a polarized nature of online deliberation that drives the dismissive popular response and leads to the formation of an anti-discourse. We conclude that two symptoms—victimization of the Self and weaponization of Leftist labels—are especially salient in the response to the decolonization agenda in Czechia as a Central Eastern European, post-socialist country.

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

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-34744S" target="_blank" >GA22-34744S: Re-articulation of a Totalitarian Past and Polarization of Society: Local Forms of International Emancipatory Movements and Their Reception Online</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Politics Culture and Society

ISSN

0891-4486

e-ISSN

1573-3416

Volume of the periodical

38

Issue of the periodical within the volume

June

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

261-279

UT code for WoS article

001270770000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85198432741