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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378114%3A_____%2F24%3A00602715" target="_blank" >RIV/68378114:_____/24:00602715 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11230/25:10482071

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

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/GA22-34744S" target="_blank" >GA22-34744S: Rearktikulace totalitních minulostí a polarizace společnosti: Lokální podoby zahraničních emancipačních hnutí a jejich recepce v online prostředí</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

International Journal of Politics Culture and Society

ISSN

0891-4486

e-ISSN

1573-3416

Svazek periodika

38

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

June

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

261-279

Kód UT WoS článku

001270770000001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85198432741