Konceptualizace pojmů rasa a rasismus: Sociologický pohled

Abstract

The analysis of language, knowledge, and interpretations -and the practical consequences of this knowledge and these interpretations -forms the basic theoretical presupposition of all sociological inquiries into the phenomenon of "race." All forms of knowledge dealing with "race" are necessarily linked with practices of power constituting hierarchical orders of classification. Racist ideology by means of these orders constructs its objects and subjects, i.e., those who are racists and those who are stigmatised. Racist representations of the Other are closely interrelated with the discursive construction of the body as a space in which symbolic boundaries of impurity, hatred as well as health and desire are situated. The discursive regime of racism is not a by-product of modernity but one of its main cultural forms. The ideology of racism played a crucial role in legitimizing the emerging nation-state both in its internal efforts to normalize society and external attempts to colonize new lands.

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“…Hoci teoretické spracovanie fenonoménu rasy a rasizmu je v českej a slovenskej akademickej produkcii prítomné (Hamar -Szaló -Šlesingerová 2007;Machalová 1997), doteraz sa s malými výnimkami (Fecenková 2013; Horký 2011; Hrubeš -Vávrová 2015; Pavlicová 2012) v tomto priestore nediskutovalo o rasizme v rozvoji a rozvojovej spolupráci ako špecifickom fenoméne. Predkladaná teoretická stať tak obohacuje česko-slovenskú akadémiu o pohľad na rasizmus, ktorý tu doteraz chýbal a na ktorom sa dá následne vystavať empirická analýza.…”