Victoria Shmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 460505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Shmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Shmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SHMIDT V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Graz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0344-9239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Family Care for Children with Disabilities in Czechoslovak Documentaries in the 1960s and the 1970s
This article discusses the approaches to family care for children with disabilities depicted in documentaries produced by prominent film directors in the 1960s and 1970s, the period explored as re-establishing patriarchal order in socialist Czechoslovakia. Interpreting the documentaries in the context of public campaigns on child welfare reveals mental deprivation as a central concept that brought together the biopower of institutions and patriar…
Reproductive Injustice and Genetic Counseling in the Socialist Politics of Disability
This article examines how socialist experts were integrated into the entrenched global agenda of demographic security. The interplay of supranational and national priorities of reproductive politics is examined through three progressively developing practices: (1) research on "congenital malformations" as an argument for surveillance over women since the mid-1950s; (2) involvement of socialist experts in global debates regarding reproductive resp…
Public Care for Children in (Post)Socialist European Films
This article explores the multifaceted role of films that disseminate critical views on public care for children in terms of their epistemic sensitivity towards the main challenges of constructing discursive practices around children and their subjectivity. Three cohorts of Eastern European films produced between the 1960s and 1990s are examined through the prism of two approaches to the deconstruction of the traditional objectified child and the…
Thematic issue of Romani Studies 34.1/2024
The Ukrainian Refugee “Crisis” and the (Re)production of Whiteness in Austrian and Czech Public Politics
This text brings into analytical focus the workings of whiteness within the politics regarding Ukrainian refugees in two neighboring countries, Austria and Czechia. This comparison aims to contextualize various racial hierarchies in which Ukrainian refugees are embedded, and to connect public discourses translated by mass media and critically accepted by scholars and experts with the personal experience of refugees and those recruited to help the…
Race science in Czechoslovakia
The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia
Public health as an agent of internal colonialism in interwar Czechoslovakia
Shmidt’s text discusses the specifics of internal colonialism in the discourses and practices of the dominant group (Czechs) concerning Slovaks and Rusyns, ethnic groups from the peripheral, eastern areas of interwar Czechoslovakia. By targeting the reproductive patterns of these groups, seen as undesirable by the authorities, internal colonialism shaped the discourse about children by consistently opposing the normalized childhood inside the nat…
Building the Czechoslovak nation and sacralizing peoples’ health
During the interwar period, the sacred meaning of health was refined and disseminated due to mutual efforts from both international and national stakeholders in different countries. This text aims to identify and explore the main pathways of connecting the discourse of health to the nation’s identity as a substitute for traditional religion in Czechoslovakia during the 1920s, a period during which institutions were created and new discourses abou…
The Ukrainian Refugee “Crisis” and the (Re)production of Whiteness in Austrian and Czech Public Politics
This text brings into analytical focus the workings of whiteness within the politics regarding Ukrainian refugees in two neighboring countries, Austria and Czechia. This comparison aims to contextualize various racial hierarchies in which Ukrainian refugees are embedded, and to connect public discourses translated by mass media and critically accepted by scholars and experts with the personal experience of refugees and those recruited to help the…
Race science in Czechoslovakia
Public health as an agent of internal colonialism in interwar Czechoslovakia
Shmidt’s text discusses the specifics of internal colonialism in the discourses and practices of the dominant group (Czechs) concerning Slovaks and Rusyns, ethnic groups from the peripheral, eastern areas of interwar Czechoslovakia. By targeting the reproductive patterns of these groups, seen as undesirable by the authorities, internal colonialism shaped the discourse about children by consistently opposing the normalized childhood inside the nat…
Building the Czechoslovak nation and sacralizing peoples’ health
During the interwar period, the sacred meaning of health was refined and disseminated due to mutual efforts from both international and national stakeholders in different countries. This text aims to identify and explore the main pathways of connecting the discourse of health to the nation’s identity as a substitute for traditional religion in Czechoslovakia during the 1920s, a period during which institutions were created and new discourses abou…
Building the Czechoslovak nation and sacralizing peoples’ health
During the interwar period, the sacred meaning of health was refined and disseminated due to mutual efforts from both international and national stakeholders in different countries. This text aims to identify and explore the main pathways of connecting the discourse of health to the nation’s identity as a substitute for traditional religion in Czechoslovakia during the 1920s, a period during which institutions were created and new discourses abou…
Public health as an agent of internal colonialism in interwar Czechoslovakia
Shmidt’s text discusses the specifics of internal colonialism in the discourses and practices of the dominant group (Czechs) concerning Slovaks and Rusyns, ethnic groups from the peripheral, eastern areas of interwar Czechoslovakia. By targeting the reproductive patterns of these groups, seen as undesirable by the authorities, internal colonialism shaped the discourse about children by consistently opposing the normalized childhood inside the nat…
The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia
Race science in Czechoslovakia
Thematic issue of Romani Studies 34.1/2024
The Ukrainian Refugee “Crisis” and the (Re)production of Whiteness in Austrian and Czech Public Politics
This text brings into analytical focus the workings of whiteness within the politics regarding Ukrainian refugees in two neighboring countries, Austria and Czechia. This comparison aims to contextualize various racial hierarchies in which Ukrainian refugees are embedded, and to connect public discourses translated by mass media and critically accepted by scholars and experts with the personal experience of refugees and those recruited to help the…
Public Care for Children in (Post)Socialist European Films
This article explores the multifaceted role of films that disseminate critical views on public care for children in terms of their epistemic sensitivity towards the main challenges of constructing discursive practices around children and their subjectivity. Three cohorts of Eastern European films produced between the 1960s and 1990s are examined through the prism of two approaches to the deconstruction of the traditional objectified child and the…
Family Care for Children with Disabilities in Czechoslovak Documentaries in the 1960s and the 1970s
This article discusses the approaches to family care for children with disabilities depicted in documentaries produced by prominent film directors in the 1960s and 1970s, the period explored as re-establishing patriarchal order in socialist Czechoslovakia. Interpreting the documentaries in the context of public campaigns on child welfare reveals mental deprivation as a central concept that brought together the biopower of institutions and patriar…
Reproductive Injustice and Genetic Counseling in the Socialist Politics of Disability
This article examines how socialist experts were integrated into the entrenched global agenda of demographic security. The interplay of supranational and national priorities of reproductive politics is examined through three progressively developing practices: (1) research on "congenital malformations" as an argument for surveillance over women since the mid-1950s; (2) involvement of socialist experts in global debates regarding reproductive resp…
Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · European history and politics (4 works) · History (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)