“I Feel Like Two In One”: Complex Belongings Among Namibian Czechs
This paper, based on the analysis of archive documents, biographical interviews and participant observation, focuses on the social and narrative construction of collective cultural identity of so-called Namibian Czechs living in Namibia. These represent a group of originally fifty-six Namibian child...
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University of Hradec Králové
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| description | This paper, based on the analysis of archive documents, biographical interviews and participant observation, focuses on the social and narrative construction of collective cultural identity of so-called Namibian Czechs living in Namibia. These represent a group of originally fifty-six Namibian child war refugees who received asylum and were educated in Czechoslovakia between 1985 and 1991. In order to understand their complex identity special attention has been paid to the dual education of the children in Czechoslovakia, to the role of the Czech language and the symbolical narratives in the construction of their collective cultural identity and to diverse discursive and social practices through which they shape, maintain, and reproduce their Czechness – both situationally in social interactions and narratively in a form of communicative memory.
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| spelling | doaj.art-8e9d4edef0ae4b8ea2c9d027b89f1cbd2024-04-21T05:57:57ZengUniversity of Hradec KrálovéModern Africa2336-32742570-75582018-12-0162“I Feel Like Two In One”: Complex Belongings Among Namibian CzechsKateřina Mildnerová0Palacký University Olomouc, The Czech RepublicThis paper, based on the analysis of archive documents, biographical interviews and participant observation, focuses on the social and narrative construction of collective cultural identity of so-called Namibian Czechs living in Namibia. These represent a group of originally fifty-six Namibian child war refugees who received asylum and were educated in Czechoslovakia between 1985 and 1991. In order to understand their complex identity special attention has been paid to the dual education of the children in Czechoslovakia, to the role of the Czech language and the symbolical narratives in the construction of their collective cultural identity and to diverse discursive and social practices through which they shape, maintain, and reproduce their Czechness – both situationally in social interactions and narratively in a form of communicative memory. https://journals.uhk.cz/modernafrica/article/view/153IdentitylanguageeducationculturememoryNamibian Czechs |
| spellingShingle | Kateřina Mildnerová “I Feel Like Two In One”: Complex Belongings Among Namibian Czechs Modern Africa Identity language education culture memory Namibian Czechs |
| title | “I Feel Like Two In One”: Complex Belongings Among Namibian Czechs |
| title_full | “I Feel Like Two In One”: Complex Belongings Among Namibian Czechs |
| title_fullStr | “I Feel Like Two In One”: Complex Belongings Among Namibian Czechs |
| title_full_unstemmed | “I Feel Like Two In One”: Complex Belongings Among Namibian Czechs |
| title_short | “I Feel Like Two In One”: Complex Belongings Among Namibian Czechs |
| title_sort | i feel like two in one complex belongings among namibian czechs |
| topic | Identity language education culture memory Namibian Czechs |
| url | https://journals.uhk.cz/modernafrica/article/view/153 |
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