The Legacy of Eugenics in CEE Countries: The Limits and Options
of Historical Consciousness

j 2018

The Legacy of Eugenics in CEE Countries: The Limits and Options of Historical Consciousness

SHMIDT, Victoria

Basic information

Original name

The Legacy of Eugenics in CEE Countries: The Limits and Options of Historical Consciousness

Authors

SHMIDT, Victoria (643 Russian Federation, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

CAS Sofia Working Paper Series, Sofia, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS), 2018

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku (nerecenzovaný)

Field of Study

60500 6.5 Other Humanities and the Arts

Country of publisher

Bulgaria

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14410/18:00101297

Organization unit

Faculty of Education

Keywords in English

CEE countries;eugenics;racialist thinking;historical consciousness;historical continuities

Abstract

V originále

This paper aims to explore the state of the art and the options for studies of eugenics in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Serbia, and Slovenia. The networking of eugenically minded scholars from these countries is seen as one of the complex transnational settings for eugenics, which ensured its reproduction over the twentieth century. By adopting a broad theoretical framework, the review of seventy-seven texts published between 2002 and 2017 juxtaposes Jörn Rüsen’s classification of historical narratives and Roy Bhaskar’s differentiation of negation. Three types of historical narratives frame the current diversity of approaches to eugenics: 1) traditional exemplary, based upon real negation; 2) exemplary-critical, providing transformative negation; and 3) critical-genetic, ensuring radical negation. Tracing the history of eugenics as a multi-layered process of crossing historical, geographical, and ideological borders assists to scale the existing pool of historical narratives about eugenics in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Serbia, and Slovenia in a way that recognises the current limits and possible options for a comprehensive revision of the legacy of eugenics.

Links

GA15-10625S, research and development project

Name: Diskurz a praxe péče o děti v českých zemích: segregace romských dětí a dětí s postižením od 19. století po současnost

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

SHMIDT, Victoria. The Legacy of Eugenics in CEE Countries: The Limits and Options of Historical Consciousness. CAS Sofia Working Paper Series. Sofia: Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS), 2018, vol. 2018, No 10, p. 1-52.

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SHMIDT, Victoria. The Legacy of Eugenics in CEE Countries: The Limits and Options of Historical Consciousness. \textit{CAS Sofia Working Paper Series}. Sofia: Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS), 2018, vol.~2018, No~10, p.~1-52.

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