African and Afroczechs in Czechia: Focus on Language and Race
Project Description
The primary goal of this ethnographic research is to understand the social identities of Africans and Afro-Czechs living in the Czech Republic with a focus on language and "race". Although some studies have elaborated on the historical trajectories of people with "African heritage" in the Czech Republic, there has been no systematic attempt to investigate the everyday life of this heterogeneous group. Given the fact that the topic of race is very relevant on a global scale, the empirical findings from this study offer an opportunity to make a significant contribution to existing research in this current field of inquiry. At both the ontological and epistemological levels, the research will help to better elucidate the relationship between language and "race" in one of the former communist countries. It will also highlight the contradictions of racial and linguistic identities through the study of the micro-dynamics of "othering", exclusion, disempowerment, discrimination and the complex trajectories of Czech, African and Afro-Czech identities.
Principal investigator
Collaboration
- Mgr. Kateřina Mildnerová, Ph.D. (Faculty of Arts UPOL)
Timeframe
- 2022–2024
Identification
- GA22-19820S
Outputs
Rudwick, S. and Nwagbo, A., 2024. Restricted affiliation: the costs of otherness among Afroczechs. Ethnic and Racial Studies, pp. 1-21.
Rudwick, S. and Simuziya, N.J., 2023. African Diasporic Narratives from the Czech Republic: Focus on Language and Race. Diaspora Studies, 16(3), pp. 264-286.
Makoni, S., Idem, U.A. and Rudwick, S., 2024. Decolonizing applied linguistics in Africa and its diasporas: Disrupting the center. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, pp. 1-22.
Rudwick, S. and Schmiedl, M., 2023. ‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter. Sport in Society, 26(10), pp. 1701-1722.
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