Men, Death and Grief in the Czech Context

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Men, Death and Grief in the Czech Context

ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva

Základní údaje

Originální název

Men, Death and Grief in the Czech Context

Název česky

Muži, smrt a smutek v českém kontextu

Autoři

ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva

Vydání

Socialist Masculinities: Men in Eastern Europe – Ruptures, Transformation and Continuities in the 20th century, 2017

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50000 5. Social Sciences

Stát vydavatele

Francie

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova česky

muži; mužství; smutek; pohřební rituály

Klíčová slova anglicky

men; masculinities; grief; funeral rites

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 17. 10. 2017 09:30, doc. PhDr. Iva Šmídová, Ph.D.

Anotace

ORIG CZ

V originále

Little is known about men´s approach to death, funeral rites and grief generally. Even more so this applies to the period of State Socialism and the region of East-Central Europe. The presentation aims to explore potential links connecting masculinities with representations of (non)grieving men coping with death of their kin and normalizing expectations related to such experiences and practices. Institutionalisation of death and related service provisions will be targeted as well focusing on their gendered character. Displacement of death in our culture (late modern Western, Christian), associations of grief with effeminate conduct and conventional masculinities with control of emotions on the one hand, and expected rational (patriarchal) management of related rituals within families on the other provides a framework for further exploration of the topic under focus. Inspired by a current research project of the author on perinatal loss in the Czech context, and her long time research involvement with critical studies on men and masculinities as well as more recent engagement with sociology of health and medicine - the presentation will focus on a comparison of current trends with (very limited) data on men and death and grief in the late State Socialist Czech era. The approach is inspired by qualitative sociological methods selecting particular relevant cases and interpreting them critically from the perspective of respective gender order and other relevant relations re/producing the status quo in social relations in the historically specific time. Particular relation of men and masculinities to death, funeral rites and patterns of grieving will be explored in the light of current practices. The research field (and the proposed presentation) covers examples from both the private sphere (fathers/sons, families) and institutionalised dealing with death and dying, such as funeral services. The private realm will be represented by narrative accounts of parental loss thematising men/fathers. The public sphere will utilize representations of the funeral service employees “funebráci” (men - undertakers) that embody culturally strongly loaded image (very low social status, high level of precariousness and public scorn). On the other side of the spectrum, there is the influential literary and cult film character of “spalovač mrtvol” (The Cremator, 1967, 1968) embodying the structural power and evil with reference to the World World II and explicit parallels to the totalitarian regime of Czech State Socialism. Masculinities and their performance or doing gender play a significant role in both of these analysed cases representing institutionalized treatment of death.

Česky

Viz abstrakt v angličtině - šlo o mezinárodní konferenci, abstrakt v CZ nebyl vytvořen.

Návaznosti

GA17-02773S, projekt VaV

Název: Perinatální ztráta - případová studie

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Perinatální ztráta - případová studie

Citovat

ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva. Men, Death and Grief in the Czech Context. In Socialist Masculinities: Men in Eastern Europe – Ruptures, Transformation and Continuities in the 20th century. 2017.

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   language = {eng},
   title = {Men, Death and Grief in the Czech Context},
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   year = {2017}
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ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva. Men, Death and Grief in the Czech Context. In \textit{Socialist Masculinities: Men in Eastern Europe – Ruptures, Transformation and Continuities in the 20th century}. 2017.

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