Narratives of Czechoslovak Prison Staff from the Communist Era

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sav.sk/?lang=sk&doc=journal-list&part=list_articles&journal_issue_no=11116337" target="_blank" >https://www.sav.sk/?lang=sk&doc=journal-list&part=list_articles&journal_issue_no=11116337</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/se-2021-0012" target="_blank" >10.2478/se-2021-0012</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Narratives of Czechoslovak Prison Staff from the Communist Era

Original language description

The Czechoslovak prison system is closely bound up with the political situation, and period before the year 1989 was no exception. Its transformation reflects changes in society and politics. The role of prison system, attitudes to prisoners, as well as modernising trends are all a reflection of the dominant master narratives of that time. This study examines how university-educated employees who were in expert positions within the prison system (psychologists, doctors, a librarian, educators, top management) between 1965 and 1992 adapted to the prison system in place or tried to transform it at the time, and how they reflect on their engagement with it at present. By exploring these questions, we are ultimately asking how their esperience as a prison staff in communist prisons influenced their professional identity and course of life, and how dominant social and political narratives under the communist rule impacted their individual lives. The study adopts a qualitative, idiographic and social constructivist narrative engagement approach to capture the interplay between the prison system and individuals within it. It finds that former employees constructed three different identity configurations reflecting their engagement within the prison system. The consequences of these configurations for prison employees, prison system and society in general are discussed.

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/GJ17-26073Y" target="_blank" >GJ17-26073Y: Transformations of the Prison System in the Czech Lands in the Period 1965–1992. Systemic and Individual Adaptations</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

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

69

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

219-235

UT code for WoS article

000726788400003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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