How Foreigners Destroyed Our Factory. Repressed Memories of a Czech Flagship Sugarplant

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Výsledek na webu

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

How Foreigners Destroyed Our Factory. Repressed Memories of a Czech Flagship Sugarplant

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The chapter by Ondřej Klípa explores the intersection of deindustrialization, transnational capital, and nationalist populism in post-socialist Czechia. Using the case of the Hrochův Týnec sugar plant, the chapter examines how the plant&apos;s closure and the subsequent demolition in 2008 contributed to xenophobic and anti-European Union sentiments among its former workers and the local community. Klípa draws on archival materials, media reports, government documents, and interviews with former employees to investigate how the disintegration of professional identities and the exclusion of the workers&apos; collective memory from the national historical narrative contributed to a rise in nationalism. The plant, once a symbol of socialist internationalism and Czech-Polish cooperation, became a site of resentment towards &quot;foreigners&quot; and EU policies after it was bought by the French-British company Eastern Sugar. Following the Czech Republic&apos;s entry into the EU in 2004, Eastern Sugar closed its Czech plants, while maintaining operations in France and the UK, sparking feelings of betrayal and injustice among the workers.The chapter highlights how these workers, despite receiving severance pay and financial compensation, viewed the closure as an economic and cultural loss, as the factory had been central to the town&apos;s social and professional life. Klípa contrasts this case with similar trends in post-socialist Hungary and East Germany, focusing on how noneconomic factors, such as the loss of communal identity and local memory, fostered nationalist-populist sentiments in the Czech context. Ultimately, the chapter illustrates how the erasure of local history and the exclusion of workers&apos; voices from public discourse fueled discontent, challenging simplistic views of deindustrialization and political radicalism.

Název v anglickém jazyce

How Foreigners Destroyed Our Factory. Repressed Memories of a Czech Flagship Sugarplant

Popis výsledku anglicky

The chapter by Ondřej Klípa explores the intersection of deindustrialization, transnational capital, and nationalist populism in post-socialist Czechia. Using the case of the Hrochův Týnec sugar plant, the chapter examines how the plant&apos;s closure and the subsequent demolition in 2008 contributed to xenophobic and anti-European Union sentiments among its former workers and the local community. Klípa draws on archival materials, media reports, government documents, and interviews with former employees to investigate how the disintegration of professional identities and the exclusion of the workers&apos; collective memory from the national historical narrative contributed to a rise in nationalism. The plant, once a symbol of socialist internationalism and Czech-Polish cooperation, became a site of resentment towards &quot;foreigners&quot; and EU policies after it was bought by the French-British company Eastern Sugar. Following the Czech Republic&apos;s entry into the EU in 2004, Eastern Sugar closed its Czech plants, while maintaining operations in France and the UK, sparking feelings of betrayal and injustice among the workers.The chapter highlights how these workers, despite receiving severance pay and financial compensation, viewed the closure as an economic and cultural loss, as the factory had been central to the town&apos;s social and professional life. Klípa contrasts this case with similar trends in post-socialist Hungary and East Germany, focusing on how noneconomic factors, such as the loss of communal identity and local memory, fostered nationalist-populist sentiments in the Czech context. Ultimately, the chapter illustrates how the erasure of local history and the exclusion of workers&apos; voices from public discourse fueled discontent, challenging simplistic views of deindustrialization and political radicalism.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

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

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA19-12941S" target="_blank" >GA19-12941S: Vyrobeno polskými soudruhy. Příběhy českých industriálních objektů a polských hostujících pracovníků ve vzájemné perspektivě</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn&apos;t Travel in One Direction

ISBN

978-1-61249-969-7

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

41-58

Počet stran knihy

283

Název nakladatele

Purdue University Press

Místo vydání

West Lafayette, Indiana

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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