Dr. Rudolf Kučera
Prag, CZ
Fellow
01.10.09-30.09.10
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
School of History
CV
Born 1980; 2008 Dr. phil. - PhD (Modern comparative history of Europe); since 2009: Research Fellow, Czech Academy of Sciences; since 2009: External Lecturer, Institute of Czech History, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Charles University in Prague; since 2009: Managing Editor of the Journal “Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries”
Publications
Books, Proceedings, Editions, and Articles (10 selected)
BOOKS
- Staat, Adel und Elitenwandel. Die Adelsverleihungen in Schlesien und Böhmen 1806–1871 im Vergleich (forthcoming in 2010)
JOURNAL AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDING ARTICLES
- Občanská společnost. Koncept a jeho historizace, Dějiny – Teorie – Kritika 2/2007, p. 219–231. ISSN: 1214-8857
- Állam, Nemesség és Civiltársadalom. Nemesi címadományozások Csehországban és Sziléziában, 1806–1871, Korall. Társadalomtörténeti folyóirat 28–29 (September 2007), p. 31–59. ISSN: 1586-2410
- Konzervativní poučení z revoluce 1848: Politická kariéra J. A. Helferta, Moderní dějiny 2006, p. 309–321. ISBN: 80-7286-094-1
- Historik a politika. V. V. Tomek a ministerstvo kultu a vyučování 1848–1863, in: ŘEZNÍK, M. (ed.), W. W. Tomek, historie a politika (1818–1905). Sborník příspěvků královehradecké konference k 100. výročí úmrtí W. W. Tomka, Pardubice 2006, p. 59–67. ISBN: 80-7194-884-5
- „Páni kamarádi“. Gender v raném dělnickém hnutí českých zemí před rokem 1848 Český časopis historický 107, 4/2009 (forthcoming) ISSN: 0862-6111
- Der neue Adel. Thesen zum böhmisch-schlesischen Vergleich, in: VELEK, L. und TÖNSMEYER, T. (Hrsg.), Adel und Politik. München 2010 (forthcoming)
- Philanthropy and Public Donation Striving for the State Recognition. The Bohemian Ennoblements 1806–1871, in: HLAVAČKA, M. (ed.), Collective and Individual Patronage and the Culture of Public Donation in the Civil Society, Prague 2010 (forthcoming)
- Zwischen Selbstbehauptung und Zivilgesellschaft. Die sozialen Strategien des neuen Adels in Prag 1806–1871, in: ŘEZNÍK, M. (Hrsg.), Adelsgeschichte und Elitenforschung, München 2010 (forthcoming)
FRIAS Research Project
“Marketing the Market. The Representations of Economic Change in Czechoslovakia 1989 - 1992 in a Comparative Perspective."
The project explores the representation forms of economic reforms in Czechoslovakia following the fall of centrally planned economy in 1989 - 1990. The main emphasis is put on the analysis of the ways the concept of fast economic transition towards a liberal market setting was mediated into the public sphere and of means helping it to generate wide public consent and support. Thus the main questions structuring the project are: How was the academic concept of fast transition explained and represented in the newly constituted public sphere of the post-communist societies? What arguments were used to legitimize the selected concept and to delegitimize alternative transition paths at the same time? By what means and arguments were the binaries defined, which legitimized the desirability of the given transition concept, i.e. how were binaries such as effective/ineffective, scientific/unscientific, feasible/unfeasible and ultimately good/bad or us/them constituted and filled in relation to the particular concept of the liberal, fast made economic transition on one side and to alternative transition concepts on the other?
By elaborating on the Czechoslovak as well as selected comparative cases (above all Poland), the project should strive for a comparative, culture-based understanding of the way how the liberal economic paradigm disseminated throughout the region after 1989 and thus contribute to answering the main question, i.e. how was the (post)modern capitalism able to ground itself in the newly emerging post-communist subjectivities.
