Vojna stejná a přece jiná: narativní (re)konstrukce základní vojenské služby v multigenerační perspektivě

• Authors: JIří Hlaváček

Title variants

EN

Identical, yet different military servce: a narrative (re)construction of the military service within the multi-generational perspective

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Te study focusses on generational transformations in the perception of military service in the period from 1968 through 2004, as an important social phenomenon. Major attention is paid to oral-historical interviews with four contemporaries, or more precisely to the ways of (re)constructing their narrative reflections associated with military service in particular historical decades beginning with the 1970s with the overlap to the new millennium (meaning from the beginning of “normalization” after 1968 to the abolishment of military service in 2004). Besides the importance of military service, the text focusses on the identification of potential topics from military everyday life and culture of military service soldiers in the context of the conversion from the socialist army to the democratic one, and at the level of constructing the individual and the group identities.

Keywords

EN

army; military service; oral history; identity; narrative; memory; geration

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 37_(79)
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 5-26
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

JIří Hlaváček

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic