The Borderland in the Child National Hermaphrodism and Pedagogical Activism in the Bohemian Lands

In the late summer of 1918, Robert Scheu, a prominent Social Democrat and journalist from Austria, toured Bohemia with a mission to investigate national conflict in a so-called exotic ʹborderlandʹ society. ʹI wish to experience the national question in Bohemia, as a tourist,ʹ he wrote. ʹTo this end,...

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Published inLocalism, Landscape and the Ambiguities of Place p. 214
Main Author Zahra, Tara
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Toronto Press 20.10.2007
Subjects
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Borderlands
Central Europe
Child welfare
Children
Communities
Cultural nationalism
Families
Family members
Germanicism
Germans
Germany
Group identity
Human geography
Human populations
Human societies
Identity
Landscape
Localization
National character
National identity
Nationalism
Orphans
Parents
Pedagogy
Persons
Political geography
Population studies
Psychology
Public welfare
Social groups
Social institutions
Social psychology
Social sciences
Social welfare
Sociolinguistics
Sociology
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Summary:In the late summer of 1918, Robert Scheu, a prominent Social Democrat and journalist from Austria, toured Bohemia with a mission to investigate national conflict in a so-called exotic ʹborderlandʹ society. ʹI wish to experience the national question in Bohemia, as a tourist,ʹ he wrote. ʹTo this end, I wish to travel along stretches of the language frontier, then to cast a glance into the Czech areas, and finally to go to Prague, after having studied the periphery. I wish to talk with burghers, peasants, teachers, village priests, and politicians, and at the same time to absorb the unique qualities
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ISBN:0802093183
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DOI:10.3138/9781442684522.13