Resilience, Uncertainty and Local Periodicals

Making Sense of Agency in Two Small Towns in Czechoslovakia (1928–1943)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6133987
AutoresJaroslav Ira (0000-0002-3686-1801, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume111
Fascículo2
Páginas221-244
Data de publicação2024-06-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoČeský lid (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0009-0794 • E-ISSN: 2570-9216
EditoraInstitute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • CZ)
DOI10.21104/cl.2024.2.04
OpenAlexW4400272798
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas18

This article explores how local media constructed resilience and agency in two small towns in interwar Czechoslovakia. It explores how small towns were represented as actors capable of coping with structural disadvantages and of navigating through the uncertainties of the turbulent period of the “long” 1930s. The research focuses on two towns, Kdyně and Heřmanův Městec, and presents the content analysis of two periodicals, Kdyňská Stráž (The Kdyně Argus) and Zájmy Heřmanoměstecka (The Heřmanův Městec Affairs). The comparative analysis of the periodicals’ agendas, the narratives of the towns, the towns’ relationship to a larger system, and the framing of major challenges during the analyzed period has unveiled common traits as well as differing strategies in creating a sense of agency: an internally- and individually-oriented discourse in Zájmy Heřmanoměstecka and an externally and collectively oriented discourse in Kdyňská Stráž

Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Art · Content analysis · Coping (psychology · Framing (construction · Literature · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Psychological resilience · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Rural development and sustainability · Social Psychology · Urbanization and City Planning