"My body is African but my soul is Czech". Othering and belonging in the biographies of the Namibian Czechs.

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

"My body is African but my soul is Czech". Othering and belonging in the biographies of the Namibian Czechs.

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The article focuses on biological-racist and cultural forms of othering, as experienced and narrated by Namibian Czechs. This experience, which was significantly inscribed into their complex belonging, has been strongly influenced by both spatial and symbolic mobility. The Namibian Czechs are a group of originally fifty-six Namibian child war refugees that fled from Angola and received asylum in Czechoslovakia in 1885. The children spent seven years in Czechoslovakia during which they were socialized, encultured and successfully integrated into Czech society. Although they were educated to become the elite of a future independent Namibia, they culturally assimilated with Czech culture and appropriated the Czech language as their mother tongue. They were relocated to Namibia in 1991 due to the political changes in both countries. This political decision had a far reaching impact on their future lives. Only a few of them had the chance to return to the Czech Republic between 1998-2002 to study at Czech universities. The problematic sense of belonging of Namibian Czechs and their awareness of their otherness was gradually constructed as they moved from one cultural setting to another. While in Czechoslovakia and later on in the Czech Republic, their otherness was primarily constructed around their physical difference (the experience of exoticization during childhood and the experience of racism during their second arrival), after their return to Namibia, a cultural form of othering has been mainly involved. The awareness of their distinctiveness in both socio-cultural environments, accompanied by a common experience of denied belonging both to Czechness and Namibianess, has led to a contrast in antagonistic solidarization within the construction of collective belonging.

Název v anglickém jazyce

"My body is African but my soul is Czech". Othering and belonging in the biographies of the Namibian Czechs.

Popis výsledku anglicky

The article focuses on biological-racist and cultural forms of othering, as experienced and narrated by Namibian Czechs. This experience, which was significantly inscribed into their complex belonging, has been strongly influenced by both spatial and symbolic mobility. The Namibian Czechs are a group of originally fifty-six Namibian child war refugees that fled from Angola and received asylum in Czechoslovakia in 1885. The children spent seven years in Czechoslovakia during which they were socialized, encultured and successfully integrated into Czech society. Although they were educated to become the elite of a future independent Namibia, they culturally assimilated with Czech culture and appropriated the Czech language as their mother tongue. They were relocated to Namibia in 1991 due to the political changes in both countries. This political decision had a far reaching impact on their future lives. Only a few of them had the chance to return to the Czech Republic between 1998-2002 to study at Czech universities. The problematic sense of belonging of Namibian Czechs and their awareness of their otherness was gradually constructed as they moved from one cultural setting to another. While in Czechoslovakia and later on in the Czech Republic, their otherness was primarily constructed around their physical difference (the experience of exoticization during childhood and the experience of racism during their second arrival), after their return to Namibia, a cultural form of othering has been mainly involved. The awareness of their distinctiveness in both socio-cultural environments, accompanied by a common experience of denied belonging both to Czechness and Namibianess, has led to a contrast in antagonistic solidarization within the construction of collective belonging.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Africa on the move. Shifting identities, Histories and Boundaries.

ISBN

978-3-643-91174-2

Počet stran výsledku

26

Strana od-do

67-92

Počet stran knihy

107

Název nakladatele

LIT Verlag

Místo vydání

Zurich

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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