Colonial Complicities Beyond the Empire : Czechoslovakia in Between Worlds and World’s Fairs

Authors

FILIPOVÁ Marta

Year of publication 2025
Type Chapter of a book
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

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Description A number of states that had never been colonized and never colonized anyone are often left out from the debates about the relationship between empire, colonialism, and visual culture. This is the case of countries in Central Europe where colonialism in the sense of territorial possessions of others did not develop and where external powers did not impose their rule on the locals. Yet, Central Europe—the region that I consider here as comprised of the historical territories of the Habsburg monarchy—actively participated in the colonial project in many ways.1 The complicities ranged from thriving trade with overseas colonies and internal colonization to adopting social and visual stereotypes linked to imperial and colonial practices. This chapter focuses on the Central European contribution to colonialism which may not be linked to direct exploitation but can be found in the way countries in this region benefited from the colonial entanglements and adopted, accepted, and encouraged stereotypes of racial difference.

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