Svádění ke kulturní asimilaci a resistence vůči ní: o dynamice sociální inkluze maďarské menšiny jižního Slovenska

SZALÓ, Csaba. Svádění ke kulturní asimilaci a resistence vůči ní: o dynamice sociální inkluze maďarské menšiny jižního Slovenska (The seduction of cultural assimilation and the resistance against it: on the social inclusion of Hungarian minority in Southern Slovakia). In SIROVÁTKA, Tomáš. Sociální exkluze a sociální inkluze menšin a marginalizovaných skupin. Brno: Masarykova universita a Georgetown, 2004, p. 217-234, 17 pp. Edice Rubikon, sv. 9. ISBN 80-210-3455-6.

Basic information

• Original name: Svádění ke kulturní asimilaci a resistence vůči ní: o dynamice sociální inkluze maďarské menšiny jižního Slovenska
• Name (in English): The seduction of cultural assimilation and the resistance against it: on the social inclusion of Hungarian minority in Southern Slovakia
• Authors: SZALÓ, Csaba (203 Czech Republic, guarantor).
• Edition: Brno, Sociální exkluze a sociální inkluze menšin a marginalizovaných skupin. p. 217-234, 17 pp. Edice Rubikon, sv. 9. 2004.
• Publisher: Masarykova universita a Georgetown

Other information

• Original language: Czech
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• Field of Study: 50000 5. Social Sciences
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/04:00011070
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• ISBN: 80-210-3455-6
• Keywords in English: identity; cultural assimilation
• Tags: cultural assimilation, identity
• Tags: Reviewed

Abstract

This paper subjects to interpretative analysis the discourse of Hungarian teachers working in the elementary schools of the Hungarian minority living in the southern regions of the Slovak Republic. It focuses on teachers experiences, strategies and legitimizations of resistance against the process of cultural assimilation that seduces and endangers the members of minority community. The first part outlines practices of resistance, particularly as they are embedded in activism, cultivation of Hungarian language skills and Hungarian national identity, and in efforts to teach Slovak language. The second part deals with forms of implicit justification provided by actors themselves. Legitimacy of resistance, in the sense of its inevitability is grounded in the ideas and arguments that crystallize around the following claims: firstly that ordinary people have an insufficient reflexivity; secondly that Hungarian minority identity has a stigmatic character, and finally that the promise of liberation offered by cultural assimilation is in fact an illusion.

Abstract (in English)

This paper subjects to interpretative analysis the discourse of Hungarian teachers working in the elementary schools of the Hungarian minority living in the southern regions of the Slovak Republic. It focuses on teachers experiences, strategies and legitimizations of resistance against the process of cultural assimilation that seduces and endangers the members of minority community. The first part outlines practices of resistance, particularly as they are embedded in activism, cultivation of Hungarian language skills and Hungarian national identity, and in efforts to teach Slovak language. The second part deals with forms of implicit justification provided by actors themselves. Legitimacy of resistance, in the sense of its inevitability is grounded in the ideas and arguments that crystallize around the following claims: firstly that ordinary people have an insufficient reflexivity; secondly that Hungarian minority identity has a stigmatic character, and finally that the promise of liberation offered by cultural assimilation is in fact an illusion.

Links

• MSM 142300001, plan (intention): Name: Etnika, minority a marginalizované skupiny v ČR (Acronym: MAMIET)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Etnicity, Minorities and Marginalisied groups in Czech Republic