The Natural Childbirth Movement in the Czech Republic

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Natural Childbirth Movement in the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This text discusses parental collective efforts to challenge existing medical and state authorities in the Czech Republic and to change the current birth care system for the better. In the Czech Republic the issue of ‘natural childbirth’ has recently become a headline, covering newspaper pages almost every other day. In this paper I map the trajectory of the natural childbirth movement to examine forces that have shaped a particular course of this social movement. I employ the theory of health related social movements and new social movements to explore birth activists’ strategies and understandtheir perspective in depth. To meet these aims, I have been conducting a long-term ethnography of the movement since spring 2011. In this article I particularly build on participant observations of key public events, five in-depth interviews with birth activists and 19 narrative interviews with women who gave birth naturally; qualitative media analysis of 77 media contributions, and the “netnography” (computer mediated ethnography) of Czech childbirth activism. In my analysis I draw a particular attention to the role of science and medicine in the Czech society,and power dynamics between medical and state authorities, and the birth activists. I argue that in the Czech cultural context a traditionally powerful position of doctors and medicine and the related general scientization of the society are biggest obstacles to the movement’ s success, as these prevent midwives and women-birth care users from becoming equal partners in negotiations with medical and state authorities.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Natural Childbirth Movement in the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku anglicky

This text discusses parental collective efforts to challenge existing medical and state authorities in the Czech Republic and to change the current birth care system for the better. In the Czech Republic the issue of ‘natural childbirth’ has recently become a headline, covering newspaper pages almost every other day. In this paper I map the trajectory of the natural childbirth movement to examine forces that have shaped a particular course of this social movement. I employ the theory of health related social movements and new social movements to explore birth activists’ strategies and understandtheir perspective in depth. To meet these aims, I have been conducting a long-term ethnography of the movement since spring 2011. In this article I particularly build on participant observations of key public events, five in-depth interviews with birth activists and 19 narrative interviews with women who gave birth naturally; qualitative media analysis of 77 media contributions, and the “netnography” (computer mediated ethnography) of Czech childbirth activism. In my analysis I draw a particular attention to the role of science and medicine in the Czech society,and power dynamics between medical and state authorities, and the birth activists. I argue that in the Czech cultural context a traditionally powerful position of doctors and medicine and the related general scientization of the society are biggest obstacles to the movement’ s success, as these prevent midwives and women-birth care users from becoming equal partners in negotiations with medical and state authorities.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GPP404%2F11%2FP089" target="_blank" >GPP404/11/P089: Hnutí přirozeného porodu a feministické přístupy k porodu v ČR: systémy sociálního jednání a myšlení</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Rebellious Parents: Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia

ISBN

978-0-253-02626-2

Počet stran výsledku

31

Strana od-do

277-307

Počet stran knihy

364

Název nakladatele

Indiana University Press

Místo vydání

Bloomington

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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