(An) Archive / Mnemo ZIN, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mnemo ZIN, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Social conditions--20th century.

Children.

Cold War--Psychological aspects.

Cold War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 415 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2024.

Summary:

"What was it like growing up during the Cold War? What can childhood memories tell us about state socialism and its aftermath? How can these intimate memories complicate history and redefine possible futures? These questions are at the heart of this book. This edited collection stems from a collaboration between academics and artists who came together to collectively remember their own experiences of growing up on both sides of the 'Iron Curtain'. Looking beyond official historical archives, the book gathers memories that have been erased or forgotten, delegitimized or essentialized, or, at best, reinterpreted nostalgically within the dominant frameworks of the East-West divide. And it reassembles and (re)stores these childhood memories in a form of an anarchive': a site for merging, mixing, connecting, but also juxtaposing personal experiences, public memory, political rhetoric, places, times, and artifacts. These acts and arts of collective remembering tell about possible futures--and the past's futures--what life during the Cold War might have been but also what it has become."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Introduction. The Anarchive of Memories : Restor(y)ing Cold-War Childhoods / Mnemo ZIN

1. Who Do I Remember For? Memory as Genre and Dark Pleasures of Trauma Witnessing / Petar Odak

Diasporic Knowledges in Central Asia: (Re)membering in Jeong / Olga Mun

2. 'I Wanted to See the Man with that Mark on his Forehead': A Historian, Her Childhood Experiences, and the Power of Memory / Pia Koivunen

Rua Liga Dos Comunistas / José Cossa

3. Passing Bye / Hanna Trampert Breakfast Across Borders / Stefanie Weiss Santos

4. The Other Side of the Curtain? Troubling Western Memories of (Post)socialism / Erica Burman

Smearing the Portrait / Lucian Țion

5. You Can't Go Home Again ... Especially if You Have Never Had One / Madina Tlostanova

Smuggling Jewelry / Tatyana Kleyn

Sleepy Smuggles / Sarah Fichtner

6. The Power of Other Worlds: Civilisational Frames and Child-Adult Intimacies in Socialist Childhoods / Jennifer Patico

The Door / Khanum Gevorgyan

7. Growing up in Cold War Argentina: Working through the (An)archives of Childhood Memories / Inés Dusse

Searching for Childhood Gummi Bears / Nadine Bernhard

8. The Secrets: Connections Across Divides / Irena Kašparová, Beatrice Scutaru, Josefine Raasch, Katarzyna Gawlicz, Zsuzsa Millei

Open Coffin / Irena Kašparová

9. Mysterious Cotton Pieces: Childhood Memories of Menstruation / Zsuzsa Millei, Katarzyna Gawlicz

Soviet Feminism? / Nadia Tsulukidze

10. Lift Up Your Arms! Elite Athletes and Cold War Childhoods / Susanne Gannon, Stefanie Weiss Santos

Losing Balance / Tatyana Kleyn

Adult Hospital Ward / Irena Kašparová

11. Children on their Own: Cold War Childhood Memories of Unsupervised Times / Nadine Bernhard, Kathleen Falkenberg

Nokia / Nelli Piattoeva

Blackberry Picking / Rahim Rahimov

12. Transcending the Border: Memory, Objects, and Alternative Memorialization in Cold War Childhoods / Ivana Polić

Snowflake / Iveta Silova

New Year's Frog / Nelli Piattoeva

13. Anarchive and Arts-Based Research: Upcycling Rediscovered Memories and Materials / Raisa Foster

The Tailor / Thoma Sukhashvili

14. Anarchive, Oral Histories, and Teaching Comparative Cold War Childhoods Across Geographies and Generations / Elena Jackson Albarrán

Pink Flamingo / Iveta Silova

15. Connecting Across Divides: A Case Study in Public History of the (e-)Motion Comic 'Ghost Train

Memories of Ghost Trains and Ghost Stations in Former East and West-Berlin' (pp. 351-369) Sarah FichtnerAnja Werner Traveling Stones (pp. 370-370) Oshie Nishimura-Sahi 16. Re-membering Ceremonies: Childhood Memories of Our Relationships with Plants / Esther Pretti,Jieyu Jiang, Keti Tsotniashvili, Dilraba Anayatova, Ann NielsenIveta Silova.

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