Wegbereiders, Roma en Sinti in Nederland en Tsjechië over het profijt van onderwijs, 1950-

Interview 55 captures the perspective of a Roma activist involved in organizing counter-demonstrations. The interview, conducted in 2020, details actions taken in response to large, sometimes violent, far-right demonstrations against Roma communities across Czech cities between 2011 and 2014. It was contributed by author A.A.L. van der Hulst to the DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities Collection.

Use Cases

• Analyzing activist strategies and community mobilization based on the description of organizing counter-demonstrations.
• Studying narratives of resistance and identity from the perspective of a Roma activist mentioned in the description.
• Examining the timeline and geography of far-right and anti-far-right protests in the Czech Republic between 2011 and 2014.
• Training natural language processing models on oral history transcripts for sentiment or thematic analysis.

Strengths

• The interview provides a first-hand, detailed account of a specific historical period (2011-2014) and events.
• It is part of a structured collection (DANS Data Station) with clear authorship and a 2020 creation date.
• The platform tags provide clear topical classification for discovery.

Limitations

• The dataset consists of a single interview, limiting statistical or broad population analysis.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for some analytical tasks.

Provenance

Source

DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities Collection

Collection Method

Oral history interview

Time Range

Interview conducted in 2020, covering events from 2011-2014.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-24 03:26:43; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Czech Republic, specifically cities across the country.