Copyright
Mnemo ZIN; Zsuzsanna Millei; Nelli Piattoeva; Iveta Silova. Copyright of individual chapters are maintained by the chapter author(s).Published On
2024-04-22ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
428 pages (viii+420)Dimensions
Weight
Media
Funding
- Tampere University
- Grant: 3122800381
OCLC Number
1431225527LCCN
2021388883THEMA
- JB
- NHTB
- JMC
- DNC
- NHTW
BIC
- BM
- JH
- JFF
- HBTW
- GTR
- JMC
BISAC
- SOC000000
- HIS054000
- PSY004000
- BIO026000
- POL011000
- SOC002000
- HIS037100
LCC
- D843
Keywords
- Cold War
- Childhood
- Memory
- State socialism
- (An)Archive
- collective biography
- Oral history
(An)Archive
Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War
- Zsuzsa Millei (editor)
- Nelli Piattoeva (editor)
- Iveta Silova (editor)
- Mnemo ZIN (editor)
Reviews
(An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and Cold War (Open Book Publishers, 2024) proposes an archipelago, merging diverse texts like islands, like the fragmented feature of memory itself. The book organically threads together each text with its particularities: chapters of conceptual and scholarly analysis, biographical reflections and recollections, poetic accounts, childhood etchings, artistic proposals, as well as pedagogical frameworks and methodological interventions. the book invites the building of an anarchive that constructs a “thread of data,” in the words of the authors: rebellious, in terms of its possibilities of establishing an order, of its affective nature and of the content of its narratives coming from the memory of subaltern subjects such as children of the past [...] the anarchive deploys a bid to give knowledge status both to the recalled experience itself and to the common narrative fabric that emerges in the collective setting of a shared experience during childhood. The book, then, underlines the potency of the contribution of childhood memories in understanding both children’s experience and broader social, political, and historical processes. This focus on the everyday dimension of childhood memories also allows for the dilution of some border categories that assume other readings of historical events. [...] strongly recommending the reading of the book, mainly among all those who are interested in relevant topics such as the history and memory of childhood and, in particular, among those who work on a political process as complex as the Cold War. (An)Archive: Childhood... is a major contribution that opens up future lines of research and stimulates new questions to delve deeper into children’s experiences in a conflict that divided the world after World War II.
Fira Chmiel
Journal of Childhood Studies, vol. 49, no. 3, 2024.
Additional Resources
Contents
- Mnemo ZIN
- Petar Odak
- Olga Mun
- Pia Koivunen
Rua Liga Dos Comunistas
(pp. 77–78)- José Cossa
3. Passing Bye
(pp. 79–90)- Hanna Trampert
Breakfast Across Borders
(pp. 91–92)- Stefanie Weiss Santos
- Erica Burman
Smearing the Portrait
(pp. 116–118)- Lucian Țion
- Madina Tlostanova
Smuggling Jewelry
(pp. 135–137)- Tatyana Kleyn
Sleepy Smuggles
(pp. 138–138)- Sarah Fichtner
6. The Power of Other Worlds: Civilisational Frames and Child-Adult Intimacies in Socialist Childhoods
(pp. 139–155)- Jennifer Patico
The Door
(pp. 156–166)- Khanum Gevorgyan
7. Growing up in Cold War Argentina: Working through the (An)archives of Childhood Memories
(pp. 167–190)- Inés Dussel
Searching for Childhood Gummi Bears
(pp. 191–192)- Nadine Bernhard
8. The Secrets: Connections Across Divides
(pp. 193–211)- Irena Kašparová
- Beatrice Scutaru
- Zsuzsa Millei
- Josefine Raasch
- Katarzyna Gawlicz
Open Coffin
(pp. 212–212)- Irena Kašparová
- Katarzyna Gawlicz
- Zsuzsa Millei
Soviet Feminism?
(pp. 235–236)- Nadia Tsulukidze
- Susanne Gannon
- Stefanie Weiss Santos
Losing Balance
(pp. 255–256)- Tatyana Kleyn
Adult Hospital Ward
(pp. 257–258)- Irena Kašparová
- Nadine Bernhard
- Kathleen Falkenberg
Nokia
(pp. 281–282)- Nelli Piattoeva
Blackberry Picking
(pp. 283–284)- Rahim Rahimov
12. Transcending the Border: Memory, Objects, and Alternative Memorialization in Cold War Childhoods
(pp. 285–302)- Ivana Polić
Snowflake
(pp. 303–304)- Iveta Silova
New Year’s Frog
(pp. 305–306)- Nelli Piattoeva
- Raisa Foster
The Tailor
(pp. 326–328)- Thoma Sukhashvili
14. Anarchive, Oral Histories, and Teaching Comparative Cold War Childhoods Across Geographies and Generations
(pp. 329–348)- Elena Jackson Albarrán
Pink Flamingo
(pp. 349–350)- Iveta Silova
- Sarah Fichtner
- Anja Werner
Traveling Stones
(pp. 370–370)- Oshie Nishimura-Sahi
- Jieyu Jiang
- Esther Pretti
- Keti Tsotniashvili
- Dilraba Anayatova
- Ann Nielsen
- Iveta Silova
Contributors
Zsuzsa Millei
(editor)Zsuzsa Millei was born in Hungary. After migrating to Australia in 2000, she enrolled in a PhD program. Her thesis focused on the history and politics of early childhood education and care in Western Australia. She had to be persuaded that there might be value in a study between the Australian system and the socialist Hungarian one, which she undertook later. She is still somewhat puzzled―although much less after the ‘Recollect/ Reconnect’ project―when researchers express enthusiasm for research on socialist childhoods. Perhaps it is due to her upbringing in a socialist country characterized by its explicit official politics (standing in line). At the same time, perhaps growing up in this context is what ignited her interest in researching children, childhood, and politics. She is also Mnemo ZIN with Nelli Piattoeva and Iveta Silova, good friends and comrades in research, art, and having fun.
Nelli Piattoeva
(editor)Nelli Piattoeva was born and raised in the Westernmost part of the USSR and continued her education across the border in Finland where she currently lives and researches different aspects of post-Soviet educational transformations including digitalization, national assessments, and nationalism. Studying childhood memories and lived experiences of (post)socialism, she seeks to understand how state policies are enacted―absorbed, resisted or ignored―by adults and children on the ground. She also feels a strong need for more research on childhood, including children’s relational agency, in educational sociology and policy studies that tend to predominantly focus on policies and adults’ experiences thereof. She has found great inspiration and comfort in engaging with artistic methods and collective biography through collaboration with and friendship of Zsuzsa Millei and Iveta Silova as the Mnemo ZIN collective.
Iveta Silova
(editor)Iveta Silova grew up in Latvia during the late Soviet period. She spent a lot of time outside, playing in her family’s summer garden, wandering along the river on the edge of her hometown, and exploring nearby meadows and forests. During this time, she learned to speak with trees and make friends with yellow fairies. Iveta now works as a Professor and Associate Dean of Global Engagement at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Her research examines the intersections of postsocialist, postcolonial, and decolonial perspectives in envisioning education beyond the Western horizon. She is particularly interested in childhood memories, ecofeminism, and environmental sustainability. She enjoys being a part of the Mnemo ZIN collective with Zsuzsa and Nelli.
Mnemo ZIN
(editor)Mnemo ZIN is a composite name for Zsuzsa Millei, Iveta Silova, and Nelli Piattoeva who grew up on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain―Zsuzsa in Hungary, Iveta in Latvia, and Nelli in Karelia. Our paths first crossed ten years ago through an informal exchange of childhood memories and quickly evolved into close collaboration using collective biography research. Our collective name acknowledges the interdependent nature of our work against the individualist, hierarchical, and competitive culture of modern academia. It is inspired by the stories from Greek mythology, especially Mnemosyne―the goddess of memory, daughter of Gaia, and the mother of the nine Muses.