Vigilance in social transition: Roma women in prostitution in Košice (Slovakia) and Most (Czechia) from the 1980s to 2004 (C07)

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 394775490

The project examines vigilance as a practice, a discourse, and as a societal mission at a local level. Using two cities as examples, the project aims to investigate how vigilance towards the publicly visible sex work being carried out by women from the Roma ethnic minority was generated and how this attentiveness was translated into action. By taking the long period of transformation from the 1980s to 2004 into account, it is possible to analyse changes in, and the persistence of, practices of vigilance aimed at maintaining and/or (re)establishing order, public safety, and morality.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1369: Cultures of Vigilance. Transformations - Spaces - Practices
• Applicant Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel